Clarion 1982-02-05 Vol 57 No 17

the C larion. Vol. 57, No. 17 Bethel College, 3900 Bethel Dr., St. Paul, MN 5 February 1982
Art, awnings augment
area's ailing atmosphere
Shadow foreshadows
more winter weather
GROUNDHOG
...............A North
American mar-mot
also known
as a woodchuck.
by Lori Bemis
On Feb. 2, 1982, the
groundhog did see his
shadow; thus there will be
six more weeks of winter.
Groundhog Day is based
on a custom that people
from Germany and Great
Britain brought to Amer-ica.
They believed that it
was a time for forecasting
the weather for the next
six weeks.
According to the legend,
the groundhog, or wood-chuck,
awakens from its
long winter sleep on Feb-ruary
2. It sticks its head
out of its home in the
ground and looks around.
If the sun is shining and
the ground hog can see its
shadow, it is frightened
and draws back into its
The Minnesota Higher
Education coordinating
Board has approved a $37
million refunding bond is-sue
that will enable the
Board to make guaranteed
loans to students through
the start of the 1982-83
school year.
The Board, which ad-ministers
the State Stu-dent
Loan Program, ap-proved
the sale of $37
million in revenue bonds
to a syndicate managed by
hole. This is supposed to
mean that there will be six
more weeks of winter
weather. But if the day is
cloudy and the ground hog
cannot see his shadow, it
stays out of its hole indi-cating
that spring weather
will soon come. (Science
has not confirmed this).
The day also corre-sponds
to the European
candlemas when spring
planting has begun. In
England and Scotland this
day was also used to fore-tell
the weather. It is pro-bably
the only time that
good weather serves as a
bad omen. The same
power of foretelling the
weather has been ascrib-ed
to the bear and the
badger.
Smith Barney, Harris Up-ham
and Company Inc.
Proceeds of the sale will
be used to refund in ad-vance
of maturity a 1978
issue of $38,250,000.
The resolution approv-ing
the sale will eliminate
terms of that 1978 bond
issue prohibiting the Board
from using certain pro-gram
funds, such as loan
repayments, for making
see page 5
by JoAnn Watkins
Community Involve-ment
Week will be held
Feb. 8-15 at Bethel. The
project is sponsored by
Campus Ministries, Peace
and Justice Committee,
and Public Action Commit-tee.
The purpose of the week-long
emphasis is threefold:
to raise the awareness of
the Bethel community to
the needs of the Metro
area, to provoke concern
and stimulate Christian re-sponse
to those needs, and
to inform students of in-volvement
opportunities.
According to Kevin
Walton, social ministries
coordinator, the project
will deal with the issue of
involvement through -cha-pel
speakers, direct con-tact
with the clientele, and
education.
Vernon Lake from the
Governor's Volunteer Of-fice
will speak in chapel
on Monday, Feb. 8. Friday
will be a chapel with stu-dent
volunteers speaking
and a slide presentation.
Tuesday, Feb. 9 will be
campus visit day for peo-by
Janice Woodard
Remodeling is being
done in the coffee shop in
order to create a more com-fortable
atmosphere and
to make the area look more
interesting.
The new divider in the
coffee shop is one phase of
the remodeling. The esti-mated
cost of the wall is
$1200-1300, according to
Paul Drake, director of
auxiliary services. The de-sign
was done by Eugene
Johnson, professor in art.
Another remodeling
plan is to hang fabric awn-ings
in the seven door-ways
leading into the cof-fee
shop. This would add
softness and color to the
coffee shop. According to
Linda Erickson, coffee
shop supervisor, the total
cost of the awnings would
be $900.
Other plans include
hanging pictures done by
Bethel art students, rear-ranging
the booths and
tables, and possibly re-ducing
the lighting, said
Erickson.
There will be rollerskat-ing
at Saints Rollerskat-ing
Rink from 6-8 p.m. on
Monday, Feb. 15 with re-fugees
located in the Metro
area. "The purpose is to
raise money for South East
Asian Domestic (SEAD)
ministry and to give Beth-el
students a chance to
interact with refugees that
we work with through
The mural by the dish
return is also part of the
project. It was painted by
Dale Johnson and is titled
"The Prevailing Family."
The Women's Auxiliary,
a volunteer organization
which raises money for
various Bethel projects,
has donated $3000 for the
remodeling of the coffee
shop, according to Joann
Moberg, president of the
Women's Auxiliary. The
money was raised through
church donations and
from the proceeds of the
birthday cakes ordered by
parents.
"The idea of remodeling
has been around for a
while, but the Lord has
just recently provided the
money," said Erickson.
The purpose of the di-vider
is not to create a
quiet study area. Erickson
emphasizes that the coffee
shop is for eating and fel-lowship,
not for studying
in. "We would like to dis-courage
studiers—they on-ly
take . up room," said
Erickson.
SEAD," said Walton. The
cost is $2.
The Peace and Justice
committee is sponsoring
teach-ins Monday through
Thursday in the AC Lounge.
(See accompanying sche-dule
for time, speaker and
topic.) The movie "Fare-well
to Freedom" will also
be shown in the AC
Lounge at several differ-ent
times. The film follows
the Hmong from the time
of the war to the problems
of resettlement in a foreign
country.
From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
on Friday there will be an
agency fair in the AC
Lounge. Fifteen to twenty
agencies that deal with is-sues
in the community and
volunteer placement will
be represented.
A Bible study guide is
being developed by the
Public Action Committee
for use by housing staff in
Prayer and Share times.
"We also want to encour-age
the professors to ad-dress
the issues raised
during the week,". said
Walton.
ple from Trevilla Nursing
Home. Saturday, Feb. 13,
will be the Winter Olym-pics
with about 60 child-ren
from Special Friends
at Mount Airy. Volunteers
are needed to help with
the activities. Residents at
Lake Owasso Residence
will be attending the bas-ketball
game also on Satur-day.
Good news for students:
big bucks for borrowers
Monday, Feb. 8 - Teach-In Schedule
11:10-12:10 Dr. William Smalley, "Hmong Refugees—Struggle
for Survival"
12:10-1:10 Brother Bruno, "The Meaning of Poverty"
1:20-2:30 Sister Connors, "Feeding the Poor in Minneapolis"
2:30-3:30 Paul Marincel, "Sheltering the Destitute—Emergency
Housing"
3:30-4:30 Film: "Farewell to Freedom"
Tuesday, Feb. 8
11:20-12:10 Eustolio Benavides, "Our Hispanic Neighbors"
12:10-1-1:10 Film: "Farewell to Freedom"
1:15-2:00 Rev. James Battle, "Civil Rights and Oppression
from a Black Perspective"
2:15-3:00 Phyllis Acker, "Volunteerism in a Time -of Need"
Wednesday, Feb. 9
11:10-12:00 Carla Skahen, "Reaching Out to the Needs of
Shut-ins"
12:10-1:10 Film: "Farewell to Freedom"
1:20-2:20 Film: "Farewell to Freedom
2:30-3:30 Ruby Starr, "Services for Handicapped Children"
Thursday, Feb. 10
11:10-12:00 Robin Wainright, "Who is my Neighbor: Biblical
Response"
12:10-1:10 Vicki Schield, "Advocacy for the Survival of the
Elderly"
1:15-2:00 Shirley Anderson, "Immigration—Aliens in Our
Land"
2:15-3:15 "Farewell to Freedom"
TBA TBA, "American Indian People in Our Midst"
Involvement week activities accent needs
rrBETHEL IS WALLS
by Jim Larson
Life: like artist's work,
ever-changing process
Page 2
editorial
People change as they go through life. It would be
difficult not to. Exposure to new ideas and broader
experiences tend to alter perceptions of the world, of
self and others.
In a sense each life is like a major work of art. The
artist and the adolescent each start working toward
some goal or image of the final product. Throughout the
pursuit of that goal the artist and the adolescent both
change. Those changes affect the image of the goal and
consequently the goal itself. Both the artist and the
young person make mistakes, change directions and
learn new methods. All these things affect the percep-tion
and the outcome of the final product.
So it is the process as much as the original idea that
determines the result. When a work is finished in the
artist's eyes that work may be sold or put on the shelf or
in some form to be considered complete. Then the artist
starts another project. All projects, though, contribute
in some way to future projects.
The process of developing a person is never complete.
However aspects of a person may be finished and put
aside but those experiences contribute in some way to
future experiences.
The real difference is in the fact that people are never
finished. Until the day of death a human life is in pro-cess—
the process of growing, changing, learning. Com-pletion
comes after death when God finishes the person
in His own image. That is a comforting thought for the
Christian. Without that hope, the process of life would
be an exercise in futility. lmk
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Volume 57, Number 17
5 February 1982
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
The Clarion is published weekly by the students
of Bethel College. Editorial opinions are the sole
responsibility of the Clarion staff. Letters are wel-come,
and must be signed and delivered in P.O.
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Leann M. Kicker, editor
JoAnn Watkins, associate editor
Wendy Norberg, sports editor
Don Copeland, photography editor
Ginger Hope, copy editor
Pam Sundeen, business manager
Anita Baerg, editorial assistant
Janice Woodard, editorial assistant
Lori Bemis, editorial assistant
Jan E. Johnson, editorial assistant -
Beth Nystrom, graphics editor - .
Timothy Larson, graphics
Jim Larson, cartoonist
Kraig Klaudt, columnist
Wendi Engel, staff writer
Ross Fleming, sports writer
Rich Whybrew, sports writer
Mitch Anderson, sports writer
John Clark, sports writer
Obinger leaves living example: grandson celebrates legacy of love
To the Bethel community
Once in a person's life a
man touches it so deeply
with the love of Christ
that Christ's presence is
felt; a man who truly has a
great influence in one's
life.,The Apostle Paul en-courages
his readers to
emulate him as a living
example of Christ.
We all know of people
that we admire for one
reason or another, but.
there are precious few who
have walked in such close
communion with the Lord
that those who know them
strive to attain that same
walk by imitating these
men and women of God.
To this writer, the living
example of Christ was
Rev. Paul Obinger.
Paul Obinger was a real
student of God's Word. In
a world of four-year de-grees
and three-year semi-naries,
it is hard to con-ceive
of a self-taught Bible
scholar. But he did not
have the luxury of a class-room
to study in. While he
worked full-time deliver-•
ing laundry and with his
wife, Nebbs, raised five
children, he spent every
spare moment intently
poring over the scriptures.
There was no grade,'no
degree program to moti-vate
him, just a pure love
for his Lord.
So well did he know his
Bible that he had not only
verses and chapters mem-orized,
but whole books as
well. A pastor tells of a
trip to California where
Paul quoted the entire
book of Revelation on the
oops ...
In the January 22 issue
the Clarion inadvertantly
stated that Jeff Siemon
was a former Viking line-backer.
In fact, Siemon is
currently a linebacker for
the Vikings.
4FA
Rev. Paul Obinger
way. While most of us
have a hard time just read-ing
it, he had it memorized.
Prophecy was a special
love for Paul Obinger, be-cause
it spoke of the return
of the Lord he so longed to
see. He went around the
country preaching about
Biblical prophecy under
the Midwest Hebrew
Ministries and before that
under the American Mes-sianic
Fellowship.
Preaching was just a
natural outworking of his
biblical studies. In fact,
while he was a laundry
deliveryman in the 1930's,
he was involved in the
Gideons International,
held evangelistic street
Meetings, and had a radio
ministry. It was through
his radio ministry that he
was called to his first of
four pastorates.
Paul was also a prayer
warrior. Everything he did
was undergirded with
prayer. He had an inter-esting
way of praying. He
would lay prostrate on the
floor before God and pour
out his heart to the Lord
for extended periods of
time. Paul Obinger was
visiting two very close
friends and asked if he
could excuse himself to
the basement for prayer.
After a while the lady of
the house, having forgot-ten
that he was still in
prayer , opened the base-ment
door and heard from
the depths of Paul's fer-vent
voice, laden with
love, joy and awe, say,
"Oh, Lord, I love you with
all my heart." Others who
have prayed with him said
they were: almost embar-rassed,
as if eaves-drop-pik
on a conversation be-tweeri
two intimate
friends. .
On Tuesday, Jan. 26,
1982, Paul Obinger was
witnessing to Jewish stu-dents
at the University of
Minnesota, as he did every
Tuesday. That evening he
was attending Bethel's
Founders' Week. He was
in the midst of the Lord's
work. He had always
prayed that he might be
doing the Lord's work right
up until he met Christ face
to face, and he lived as if
the Lord's coming would
be any moment. In keep-ing
with the Founder's
Week theme, Paul Obin-ger
was found faithful
when God took him. He
wasn't disappointed, but
he didn't expect to meet
Christ by way of the un-dertaker;
he had expected
the "upper-taker." But
even in his death his faith
was proclaimed to those
around him. Instead of giv-ing
his money to a health
insurance company, he
gave it to the Lord. In fact
his stewardship was equal
in proportion to what he
used himself. Ndt every-one
would be able to live
in faith like this, but God
rewarded him by taking
him quickly.
When someone goes to
be with the Lord, many
things are remembered of
him. There are two things
that immediately .c ome to
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A visit to an Indian ashram in quest of spiritual enlightenment
by Kraig Klaudt
When one goes to Rome a visit to the Vatican is a
must. When in Tulsa, Oral Roberts, prayer tower is a
must. In India, no trip is complete without a visit to a
real guru at the local ashram.
For thousands of years, truth-seekers and contem-platives
from around the world have pilgrimaged to
Indian ashrams in quest of spiritual enlightenment.
Similar to a monastary, though less structured, an ash-ram
is a sanctuary in nature where people gather to
experience God through community and meditation.
At the heart of the ashram is the guru, the proverbial
sage who guides his disciples to the secrets his years
have found. Though rarely perched on a Tibetian moun-taintop,
he is anything one would expect a good godly
man to be: silent, bearded and robed in saffron cloth.
This is the way truth is found in India. It is not
surprising, then, that Christianity too might vend her-spiritual
goods in a similar manner. Thirty kilometers
outside of Trechi I found one of the few Christian ash-rams
in India. It is called Shanti Vanam, which means
"forest of peace."
The grand puba of Shanti Vanam is Father Bede
Griffiths. English, Oxford-educated, author of several
books and dear friend of C.S. Lewis (Lewis's autobio-graphy,
Surprised by Joy, is dedicated to him). Father
Griffith seems oddly at home in his small, one room but
on the banks of the Cauvery River. It has been his
mission since he came to India in 1955 to present the
Gospel in a natural form to the Eastern culture.
At 5:30 in the morning—early even by Indian stan-dards—
I took part in my first mass at Shanti Vanam.
With 35 others, I sat crosslegged on the floor of the
Hindu-styled hall of worship. To my surprise, the ser-vice
began with the uttering of OM, the word of the
everlasting Brahman. After burning incense, ringing
bells, reading from the upahishads, hailing Mary and
hearing a lesson from I John 4:7-8, I had a few of my own
questions to ask the resident guru:
Klaudt: From the word OM to the end of the service I
wasn't certain which God I was worshipping. You did
everything but break coconuts open on the alter!
Former Bethel students
found all over the world
Every state of the nation
claims as its residents
some Bethel College and
Seminary alumni, accord-ing
to the directory just
published by the alumni
office in November 1981.
Beginning with Linda
Aalderks and ending with
John Zylstra, nearly 18,000
names are listed spanning
71 years, with 661 John-sons
filling the most
columns.
The largest number of
Bethel Alumni live in Min-nesota-
5,238.
Of these, 1,148 are in the
City of St. Paul, 1,098 in
the the City of Minneapo-lis,
and 1,353 in outlying
suburbs, for a total Twin
Cities count of 3,599.
Other states with a large
number of alumni from
Bethel are Illinois-903,
California-895, Wiscon-sin-
522, Iowa-365, and
Father Griffiths: We have! Yes, we've done that too! It's
a beautiful symbolism; the idea of the coconut with its
hard, rough exterior which represents the outer world,
the outer self. You break your ego and within is the
sweet, white substance of milk which is the Divine Life
hidden within.
Klaudt: Why is all of this necessary?
Father Griffiths: Hindus will never accept Christianity
in its Western form, in its Western organization, with
its Western philosophy. Everything the church has, you
see, is Western. It is not Indian. The East must receive
Christ in his totality but not in his Western packaging.
Klaudt: It would be helpful if you could explain briefly
what it is that you are doing at Shanti Vanam.
Father Griffiths: Certainly. In Hinduism there has
always been this search for God, this ashram tradition.
Our aim is to unite the Christian monastic tradition of
giving up everything but God alone with the Indian
tradition of sanyassi, of surrender. The ashram is the
form of life that it takes as we follow the Hindu custom.
All of this, you see has been pioneering work. However,
we have had good support on the whole from the
authorities of the church. People come here from all
over the world to find an experience of God. They want
to find God as a living reality in their lives and they
need some quiet, some place for meditation and to do
yoga as well. Many people have wonderful experiences
here which change their lives.
Klaudt: If I were a devout Hindu and I were to visit
your ashram, what would you tell me?
Father Griffiths: We would normally let the Hindu fol-low
his own path. We would never try to convert him.
We always try to accept them as they are, and then
allow Christ to draw them through the scriptures and
through the life we lead. You see, any attempt at con-verting
the people of India has the reverse effect: it
creates a barrier.
Klaudt: Would the Hindu find Christ or would he be
presented with an equally valid road to his universal
god?
Father Griffiths: That is a big problem. I think the only
difference is that we relate everything to Christ as the
fullness, the finality. Whereas for them he is one with the
Avatar, just one of the manifestations of God. We feel
that Christ is the way, the truth and the life, and all that
truth belongs to him. If there is any truth in Hinduism,
Buddism and Islam, it should be brought to Christ.
Christ inherits the riches of the nations. All of Indian
spirituality and philosophy—all of that has been given
to Christ. Vendanta, yoga; all of these things we use and
try to see how they relate to Christ, the final word of
God.
The church in the past has been very narrow. We
have always said, both Catholics and Protestants, that
we have the truth and everything else is false. And that
is not true. People realize today that there is truth in
these things, and if you pretend there isn't, then you just
make yourself out to be foolish.
Klaudt: Many Christians would reject the idea of fol-lowing
a guru such as yourself. They would claim that
the authority of the scripture and the guidance of the
Holy Spirit is enough.
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Father Griffiths: We don't emphasize the guru aspect,
but I would say that if you want to follow the Holy
Spirit you do need a condition of life which makes you
open to the Spirit. If you are continually living in a city
with opposite forces at war, it makes it very difficult.
The value to me of an ashram is that there is a place to
get away from all these conflicting forces. One is able to
find himself a place where he can be open and surren-dered
and discover what the Holy Spirit is saying. The
guru is there to give guidance and help.
Klaudt: So you see yourself as a teacher?
Father Griffiths: Yes, yes, Christ is the guru. We call
him the sat-guru (great-guru). They come here to find
him, not to find me.
Klaudt: The life of the mystic or the monk is often one of
escaping the pains and contradictions of the world.
Hindu thought is also big on fleeing from the cycles of
suffering. Is this too a goal of your ashram?
Father Griffiths: No, we very much react against that
you know. One of-the differences between an ashram
and a monastary is that the monestary always has an
enclosure to keep people out. But the ashram is com-pletely
open; people come here from all parts.
They should be exposed to life. You have to create
your own center of prayer and silence, but it must be
open. Particularly we feel in India with the tremendous
suffering and poverty around we must be aware of it all
the time and must be related to it. So we help in the
villages, as that is an essential part of the ashram.
Klaudt: In your opinion, what does the future of Chris-tianity
look like in India?
Father Griffiths: The long future is very promising. The
immediate future is very confused. But I think the
whole of India is very confused.
Money is spoiling the church. They get money with
good intent to help the poor but they get corrupted by it.
Still, there are true people everywhere.
Hinduism still lacks something. Love is really what is
lacking. Hinduism has wonderful levels of conscious-ness
and so on, but practical love is missing. Still, it is
lacking in us too.
Colorado with 298.
In addition to living in
the 50 states plus the Dis-trict
of Columbia and Vir-gin
Islands, Bethel alumni
are spread abroad in 47
other countries. Outside
North America the largest
number of alumni is 32 in
Japan, followed by 29 in
the Philippines, 12 in Bra-zil,
and 10 each in Kenya
and Sweden.
Evelyn Christerison spoke at Bethel's Founders week women's
luncheon Jan. 28.
William Doyle is a math instructor and director of the Academic
Computer Center at Bethel (photo by Don Copeland).
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Christenson believes in Bethel
by Jan. E. Johnson
Evelyn Christenson, the
best-selling author of such
books as What Happens
When Women Pray and
Lord, Change Me, has
some very relevant things
to say about Bethel as a
Christian liberal arts col-lege,
and she shared her
views with the Clarion in
a recent Founders' Week
interview.
Christenson said that
the goal of a liberal arts
college should be to pro-vide
a well-rounded edu-cation
with a standard of
academic excellence.
"Bethel provides all of
that, but with a spiritual
emphasis," Christenson
said. "I feel that having a
well-rounded education is
extremely important."
She went on to say that
she would like to see more
by Laurie Challman
After teaching in the
Canary Islands, Taiwan,
Germany, and at Ohio
State University, why
would anyone choose to
come to Bethel College in
Arden Hills, Minn.? Wil-liam
Doyle can answer.
"I didn't want to come to
Minnesota—just as some-one
from Minnesota would
probably never think of
moving to Ohio. But the
Lord brought my family
and me here through a job
opportunity at Bethel,"
said Doyle.
Originally from Ohio,
Doyle is a new math in-structor
and the director
of the Academic Compu-ter
Center at Bethel this
fall.
Doyle deliberately
sought opportunities to
live in other countries,
mostly because of the ex-perience
he had as a resi-dent
advisor for a fresh-man
dorm at Moody Bible
Institute in 1965 - 1966.
There he worked with mis-sionary
kids (MKs) who
had difficulty adjusting to
life in the U.S. and there
he decided to prepare to
teaching MKs abroad.
He did his student teach-ing
in the Canary Islands
in 1968, which he de-scribed
as an "ideal place."
The climate, the people
and the free port helped
make it so, he said.
He taught, coached
basketball and played
trumpet in a band in Tai-chung,
Taiwan, at a school
for MKs and military kids.
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specialities at Bethel, "But
for that we'd need more
money. Still, I have'com-plete
confidence in the new
president of Bethel to use
the resources that we do
have."
When asked why she
thought that a Christian
liberal arts education was
more valuable than a sec-ular
liberal arts education,
Christenson replied, "I feel
that it is very important to
develop the spiritual side
as well as the mental side.
It's good for students to
see life from God's pers-pective,
to put God into
every subject that is
taught. This is the time
that the student is devel-oping
his values for life.
He (or she) should learn to
look at things from God's
point of view. It's also good
for a Christian student to
see that all the brilliant
people of the world are
It was a good environment
to work in, he said, but
after a year he decided it
would be good to be chal-lenged
in a more non-Chris-tian
school evironment.
not in secular schools."
Christenson also said
that the moral training
was very important, and
that with the moral train-ing
and the academic
standards set by Bethel,
she felt that the graduates
were able to find good jobs
because employers know
Bethel.
When Christenson is not
writing or speaking at
gatherings such as Found-er's
Week, she runs a
home.
"We have a very close-knit
family and we spend
all of our holidays, birth-days,
and vacations to-gether,
so that's where
most of my 'spare time'
goes. I don't-have time to
just do things like leisurely
shop. Usually I just dash
to the store when I need
something. enjoy life
very much, and have a
very happy life."
and a new learning ex-perience.
One of his short-term
goals is to master the run-ning
of the Academic Com-puter
Center. He also is
looking toward making a
"significant contribution
furthering research in the
learning and teaching pro-cess
of math education."
He said that all students
have some background, no
matter how small, in corn-puters.
"Our society is be-coming
too computerized
not to," he said.
working with so many
youth," he commented, "I
thought I had all the an-swers.
Now that I have
my own children I seem to
have less answers than
the parents who used to
ask me the questions."
He enjoys music, is de-voted
to the Ohio State
football team, and could
enjoy woodworking if he
had more time. The only
part of Minnesota that he
isn't sure he'll enjoy is the
cold winter, which keeps
him from biking to school.
by Anne Staus
The Board of Regents:
fifteen people who are re-sponsible
for making ma-jor
decisions regarding
Bethel. They are pastors,
business executives, and
educators who have been
elected by the Baptist
General Conference.
The Regents meet tour
times a year for several
days. The first evening
they hold committee ses-sions.
The next day and
evening they meet with
two college students, two
seminary students, two
college faculty, two semi-nary
faculty and other
selected persons with ex-pertise
related to the bus-iness
being discussed. The
third day is an executive
session where action is
taken on issues.
Coming:
kitchen
computer
by Larry Smith
A computer system may
go into use next fall in the
cafeteria and coffee shop,
according to Wayne Erick-son,
food service director.
Changes would affect stu-dents
living on campus,
cooks, food service man-agement
and the patrons
of Bethel's food service.
The most obvious
change would be in the
food card system. Students
living on campus would
be issued a special identi-fication
card to be used
when purchasing a meal.
Still using the a la carte
method, meals would be
purchased by punching
the student identification
number into the computer
and subtracting the
amount of the meal to give
the resulting balance. This
system would replace the
old cash registers, magic
markers and food cards.
Erickson outlined three
options which could be
available for people- not on
the food program con-nected
with living on-cam-pus.
Food could be pur-chased
with cash. Through
the banking window, a
person could establish cre-dit
on his/her account to go
see page 8
"Their function is
policy-making," said Ger-maine
Wessman, assistant
to the president. "I think
it's a very important con-tribution
they make be-cause
they have expertise
in outside areas that they
bring to Bethel." The Board
is not involved in admin-istrative
decisions, how-ever.
All recommendations
for faculty personnel and
executives must be ap-proved
by them. This in-cludes
the candidates re-commended
for president
and the vice-president of
the college, seminary, Pub-lic
Affairs, and Business
Affairs. They also approve
faculty promotions.
The Regents determine
the lifestyle statement and
see page 9
Doyle likes the atmos-phere
at Bethel. As a
Christian he feels he has a
freedom to express his
faith. "I don't have to fit
into a certain denomina-tional
mold—I have free-dom
of worship. Some
Christian colleges aren't
like that."
Doyle lives within bik-ing
distance from Bethel,
"except in the winter," he
said. He has a wife, Karen,
and two children: Heather,
5, and Stephanie. 7. "After
His next big move was
to Baumholder, Germany,
in 1975 where he taught
school and coached a bas-ketball
team for three
years. This military school
was one of two places in
Germany where the firing
of live amunition was al-lowed.
He said, "It was a
fascinating learning expe-rience
to watch tanks,
heavy artillery and front-line
troops in action." Even
more interesting was the
first-hand information he
got about the U.S. military
situation because of being
so close to the front line.
"Coming back to the U.S.
was a culture shock for me
just as it is for anyone
who goes abroad," said
Doyle. His lifestyle and
attitudes have changed, he'
said, in the sense that he is
much more world-mis-sions
oriented.
Doyle also worked as a
youth minister in Indiana-polis
for three summers
and the fall of 1970- 71 at a
large evangelical Presby-terian
church. "Actually,"
he said, "I've been a youth
minister all along; I just
hadn't been given the title
or the paycheck for it."
Now his ministry is at
Bethel. He sees his posi-tion
as instructor and di-rector
of the Academic Corn-puter
Center as a challenge
Doyle exchanges international teaching for position at Bethel
Major decisions made by
Bethel Board of Regents
Dr. John Stott spoke on the role of pastors Thursday, Jan. 28, in chapel during Founders' Week
(photo by Don Copeland).
Page 5
Stott speaks out on liberal arts education
by Janice Woodard
"The only fault of a Chris-tian
liberal arts college is
that it creams off most of
the best Christian facul-ty,"
said Dr. John R. W.
Stott, world—known Bible
expositor, conference speak-er,
and author. "We need
Christian professors and
students willing to stand
on their own in a secular
school too.
Stott, Rector Emeritus
of All Souls Church, in Lon-don,
was guest speaker at
Bethel- during Founders'
Week.
Stott believes that a Chris-tian
liberal arts education
is very important because
the lordship of Jesus needs
to be an integrating prin-ciple
of life. "If Jesus is
Lord at all, He must be
LOrd of everything," said
Stott. According to Stott,
one's whole life must be
At Urbana '81, Inter-Var-sity
Christian Fellowship's
13th Student Missions
Convention, 7,078 dele-gates
(mostly students)
signed the World Evange-lism
Dedi,si'on Card, distri-buted
to the crowd of over
14,000 in attendance, Dec.
27- 31, 1981.
According to John Kyle,
program director for Ur-bana
'81, 1,727 delegates
indicated they believed
God was leading them to
serve overseas. At the
same time, 4,723 made de-cisions
to increase their
awareness and involve-ment
in world missions.
Another 678 delegates
made commitments to sup-port
world missions with
money earned from busi-ness
or professional skills.
Although a majority of
those in attendance are
Christians, over 500 stood
when Rev. Billy Graham
gave an invitation to any-one
who wanted to accept
or be assured of their sal-vation
in Jesus Christ.
All of the delegates who
signed decision cards re-ceive
a packet of informa-tion
including an Interna-tional
Prayer Calendar; a
booklet entitled The Next
Ten Steps; "Checklist for
Missions" (article); and
MARC's, You Can So Get
There From Here.
committed to Christ; this
includes an integration of
faith and learning.
Stott labels the Chris-tian
mind as "a mind think-
' ing about everything, even
secular things, from a Chris-tian
perspective. It is a
total mind set."
By striving for a Christ-like
life and by maintain-ing
a Christian mind, Stott
believes that all the needs
of an individual, spiritual,
physical, and mental, will
be met at a Christian lib-eral
arts college.
Stott has begun an in-stitute
in England for lay-men,
called The London
Institute for Contem-porary
Christianity. 'The
institute's purpose is to
teach how to integrate
one's faith and profession
In order to develop a Chris-tian
mind.
"Dr. Stott is a
traveler for Christ, aandnd wel-
As a part of the follow-up
program to Urbana '81,
Inter-Varsity Christian
Fellowship is sponsoring
over 70 "Urbana Onward"
conferences throughout
Spring of '82. The confer-ences,
scheduled in 39
states'and three Canadian
provinces, encourage stu-dents
who made commit-ments
while at Urbana
'81.
"Urbana Onward" pro-vides
Urbana delegates
with a practical look at
world missions. Mission-aries
and various Inter-,-
Varsity staff members par-ticipating
in the weekend
conferences counsel stu-dents
on how to take steps
in applying what they
learned while at Urbana
'81.
Urbana '81 was held at
the campus of the Univer-sity
of Illinois—Urbana.
Students came from more
than 22 nations. Inter-
Varsity Christian Fellow-ship's
next student mis-sions
convention will be
held in 1984, returning the
conference to its former
three-year cycle.
Inter-Varsity is the old-est
of the inter-denomina-tional
campus ministries
with chapters on over 820
campuses in the U.S. The
national headquarters is
located in Madison, WI.
comed everywhere," said
President Lundquist. "God
has blessed him and made
him successful."
As an honorary chap-lain
to Queen Elizabeth II,
Stott speaks at one royal
chapel per year. He has
done this for the past 23
years.
In his leisure time, Stott
enjoys birdwatching and
photography.
Stott lives in a small
two-room apartment in Lon-don,
England, where he
was born in 1921. Being a
bachelor, Stott does not
feel tied down and feels
free to travel.
Looking back on his life
so far, Stott said, "I have
enjoyed it tremendously. I
only wish that I had ten
lives."
by JoAnn Watkins
Dr. Gordon Howell and
Dr. David Murchie will
present a faculty recital
Friday, Feb. 5, at 8 p.m.
Admission to the recital,
which will be held in the
Seminary chapel, is free.
Howell, professor of mu-sic,
will play 'piano;
Murchie, assistant profes-sor
in Biblical and theo-logical
studies, will per-
Obinger, from page 2
Paul Obinger. He had an
immense love for people,
and it especially showed
in his family. I remember
the pride he took in the
architectural skills of a
young grandson as he
erected buildings with
wooden blocks. It was no
more than a month ago
that he picked up a grand-daughter
and innundated
her with a deluge of kisses.
We all laughed as my little
sister squealed in sheer
delight, "Bumpa doo-doo"
Translation: Grampa's
kisses.
But one of my most
cherished memories is that
he took the time and pa-tiently
answered all my
questions about scripture.
As a child, I remember
while sitting on my grand-father's
knee, I imagined
what it must have been
like for the children that
sat at Jesus' feet. As a
young man I was-in awe of
his knowledge and grasp
of scripture.
Paul Obinger was by no
means perfect, but he was
without question a living
example.
Daniel Larson
form on violin. The music
played will be sonatas by
Schubert, Mozart and Schu-mann.
Howell said that the cham-ber
music that they will
play is different from typ-ical
solo music. "The com-poser
wrote the music for
a number of solo instru-ments
as equal soloists,"
he said. "The music is more
loans, from page 1
new student loans. As a
result, the Board expects
to be able to use for new
loans about $50 million
that otherwise would have
been restricted.
It is expected that the
$50 million, plus loan
funds on hand, will enable
the Board to disburse loans
through about next Octo-ber.
The refunding issue
will allow the Board to
"relend" loan proceeds, so
it may not have to sell
bonds as often as it has in
the past.
"The sale is important
because it ensures that loan
money will be available to
difficult and challenging
from the performers' stand-point
to perform." He add-ed
that he and Murchie
have been working on this
program since June.
Murchie has studied vio-lin
since age ten and
played in the Denver sym-phony
for six years. While
teaching in the BTS depart-ment
at Bethel he does
help students pay signifi-calif
increases in tuition
expected during the next
year," HECB President Jim
Krause said. "At the same
time, the amount of state
and federal grant funds to
be available is likely to be
reduced due to budget
problems."
The loan program is fi-nanced
by the sale of tax-exempt
revenue bonds and
requires no state appro-priations.
The bonds are
obligations of the Board
and are repaid by funds
received as a result of the
program's operation.
The 1981 Minnesota Leg-islature
increased the
Board' s bond ceiling from
freelance work and has
played with the college
orchestra.
Howell has taught at
Bethel for 23 years and he
is presently teaching mu-sic
theory and piano. He
received his Ph.D. in music
from Eastman School of
Music, Rochester, New
York.
$300 million to $550 mil-lion.
Including today's
sale, the Boards' outstand-ing
obligations amount to
$335,420,000.
The bonds have received
a rating of A by Moody's
Investor Services Inc. and
A+ by Standard and Poor's
Corp.
During the current
school year the Board anti-cipates
making approxi-mately
60,000 loans total-ing
$125 million. About
half of Minnesota's full-time
post-secondary stu-dents
rely on guaranteed
loans from either state or
private lenders to help pay
their secondary education
expenses.
Missions awareness
increases at Urbana
Duo recital features chamber music
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interim class Depression House.
Twice during January record snowfalls cancelled classes and created snow removal problems.
"Eighteen heads saying 'Oh'" was a display created by the interim Clay
Forms class as a self-portrait project.
Founders week found the halls, coffeeshop and gym full of pastors, lay people and alumni.
Saturday night activities at Silvercrest centered around removing snow and cars after snowfalls totaling 36 inches. Despite near-blizzard conditions Randy Stonehill drew a crowd of die-hards to his concert Jan. 22.
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The show will run through
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Dale Johnson, associate
professor of art at Bethel,
is exhibiting paintings in
the Katherine and Nash
Gallery at the University
of Minnesota, West Bank.
Johnson's paintings are
a naturalistic depiction of
life in muted colors. Al-though
there are land-scapes
the works deal
predominately with peo-ple.
Children are a favor-ite
subject of Johnson, and
ideas for the works of
children came from his
own children.
The exhibition is a cul-mination
of three years
work. Johnson said that in
the last two months he has
worked overtime in pre-paring
for this exhibit.
Selected exhibitions of
Johnson's have been in
New York, the Twin Cit-ies,
Boston, and other
places throughout the
United States. He has
works in the permanent
collections of Cargille,
Inc., Minnesota Mining
Corporation, Federal Re-serve
Bank, the Hennepin
County Medical Center
and also at the Exxon
Corporation in New York
City.
Johnson received his
Master of Fine Arts de-gree
from Michigan State
University, East Lansing,
in 1970. He earned his
B.A. from Western Michi-gan
University, Kalama-zoo.
The exhibit will run
through February 12.
Dale Johnson's "Standing Alone," is part of his exhibit at the
Katherine and Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota
(photo by Wendi Engel).
The Student Senate dis-cussed
the issue of locks
for the POs at the first
meeting of second semes-ter
on Tuesday, Feb. 2.
The Senate thinks that
financing will be a major
issue on deciding what
type of locks will be used.
Also discussed was the
dilemma of what to do
with the 700 extra year-books
that were ordered
previously because "it was
hoped that each student
would receive one free,"
said Cheryl Thomas, vice
president of the Student
Association. Yearbooks
will be available for those
who order them at the
concession stand Feb.
10- 12.
Joy Diacou's letter of
resignation from the Se-nate
was read and ap-proved
and she was ap-pointed
to the Public Ac-tion
Committee as a non-voting
member. The Sen-ate
also approved the ap-pointment
of Robert
Thompson to the Acade-mic
Policies Committee.
The Public Action Com-mittee
(PAC) asked the
Senate's help in supplying
the Thriftco Store at Voice
of Calvary Ministries in
Mississippi for the month
of February. Items needed
include new or used
irons, coffee pots, wash-ers
and refrigerators.
Other committee reports
were given by the January
working groups, which
will continue to meet until
all issues are dealt with.
Johnson art exhibitions
characterized by nature
Senate catches up on
PO lock controversy
computer, from page 4
on a food account. A
program could be deve-loped
whereby an
on-campus student could_
transfer credit from his/
her food account to an-other
person who wished
to buy credit from him/her.
This would be the equiva-lent
of buying and selling
food cards. For either of
the last two options, an
account would be estab-lished
with an identifica-tion
number.
The computer system
would be of benefit to the
cooks in preparing each
day's menu. By using pre-viously
collected data it
would be possible to pre-dict
how much food is
_needed for a certain day.
In much the same manner,
the computer would adjust
recipes to the needs of the
day.
The University of Wis-consin-
Stout, using a sys-tem
similar to Bethel's
proposed system, reduced
its inventory by 75 per
cent. Stout reduced costs
by lowering the inventory
level and thus reducing
waste.
By using the computer
to predict the students'
consumption for a partic-ular
day, the amount of
wasted food could be re-duced.
The goal is that
with the computer these
costs could be reduced,
both to the food service
and to the customers.
The cost of the system
could run close to $100,000,
according to Erickson. "We
would like to see it in
operation. The adminis-tration
is checking to see if
it can be worked out finan-cially,"
he said.
Paul Drake, director of
auxilary services, said,
"Our present system is
outdated. The only remain-ing
factor is the cost."
For the system to go
into use next fall it needs
to be ordered by Feburary
1. But the administration
will wait until January to
receive a proposl..from
Concept Systems,' Iricor-porated,
before making a
decision. They will also
examine a proposal from
IBM.
Preparation for the com-puter
would be done this
spring, when the present
records in food service
would be translated into
workable computer lan-guage
and figures.
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(photo by Don Copeland).
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Peace Corps urgently
needs individuals to serve
as volunteers with skills
in math and science edu-cation,
agriculture, fores-try
and fisheries, home
economics and nutrition,
or civil engineering.
Math and science
teachers are ranked high-est
on the most-needed list.
In some developing coun-tries,
a student's ability to
score high on entrance
exams determines whe-ther
he or she will attend
high school.
According to one Peace
Corps volunteer serving in
Togo,' the education sys-tern
makes it harder for a
Togolese student to get in-to
high school than into
college. it is important that
increasing numbers of peo-ple
in developing nations
gain post-secondary edu-cation
to fill the leader-ship
positions in their
countries that have opened
since independence.
Other skills badly need-ed
by the Peace Corps in-clude
industrial arts and
vocational education,
mechanics, medical lab
technology, and occupa-tional
and physical
therapy.
In Zaire, for instance,
children suffer from mal-nutrition
because there is
no skilled labor to main-by
Janice Woodard
A senior recital will be
performed by Jeffrey Mur-ray
and Bradley Bak on
Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. at the Sem-inary
chapel.
Murray will be playing
the C trumpet and the pic-colo
trumpet, and Bak will
be singing baritone.
Murray, principal trum-pet
in the concert band
and the student director,
is majoring in secondary
instrumental music. Bak,
a church music major, is sec-tion
leader in the college
choir and also the student
director.
The program will open
with a duet selection by
Bach. Selections played
will range from baroque
to contemporary. A recep-tion
will follow the recital.
The program is free of
charge and open to all.
Murray has studied for
two years under Ronald
Hasselmann, assistant
principal trumpet in the
Minnesota Orchestra. Bak
tain vehicles to transport
food. "There is an incredi-ble
need in Zaire for
mechanics who can repair
and maintain vehicles,"
says Baudouin de Mar-cken,
former Peace Corps
country director for Zaire.
It is critical that Zaire be-gin
to develop vocational
and training courses in
everything, from auto re-pair
to carpentry, accord-ing
to de Marcken.
The work of a single
skilled volunteer can trig-ger
benefits in many areas
of community life. A re-cent
agriculture volunteer
in Honduras pointed out
that improving the diet of
local children resulted in
better health, which in-creased
school attendance
and opened the way to a
better education.
As Peace Corps moves
into the decade of the
1980's, the agency will be-gin
to consider means of
making a greater impact
on the people whom they
strive to help. At the agen-cy's
20th anniversary con-ference
Prime Minister Ed-ward
Seaga of Jamaica cal-led•
for more agronomists,
agriculturists, and others
to help train his people. He
wants to see Peace Corps
work in those areas that
have more of a multiplier
effect.
has studied for four years
under Gerard Sunberg, as-sistant
professor in music
at Bethel.
Accompaniment will be
played by Jill Danielson,
piano; Mrs. Lee Harding,
piano and harpsichord; Dr.
David Murchie, violin;
Mrs. Jennifer Naglack,
violin; and Mrs. Alicia
Steinhaus, cello.
Regents from page 4
review and approve the
budget and building re-commendations.
A recent example of this
can be seen with plans for
a fieldhouse. The ground-work
was presented by
the director of- campus
planning and the funding
plans were presented by
Public Affairs. The Board
considered these recom-mendations
and decided
the timing and procedure
to take in erecting a new
fieldhouse.
Each year three new Re-
Peace Corps director Lo-ret
Miller Ruppe stated in
her speech before the 1981
summer commencement of
Northern Michigan Uni-versity
in Marquette that
Peace Corps can take well-motivated
Americans and
train them for service 'in
the Third World.
"We train them to be
able to encourage village
farmers to dig a pond, fill
in, stock a fast-growing
fish, and within three
months they can harvest a
crop of protein-rich food
and refill the pond and
start the cycle anew,"
maintained Ruppe.
To provide a place that
might have a 50 percent
infant mortality rate, 50 to
70 percent malnutrition
and an annual per capita
average income of $180
with a system of produc-tive
fish ponds gives the
whole area a source of
income and a source of
protein. This gives them a
future, Ruppe said.
Persons interested in in-formation
about service in
the Peace Corps may call
800-424-8580, Ext. 93, toll
free, or write Peace Corps,
Washington, D.C., 20525.
An alternative design to
Minnesota's current sys-tem
of helping students
pay for their education be-yond
high school may be
needed to cope with fiscal
constraints and to correct
inequities in the existing
approach, a staff paper pre-sented
to the Higher Edu-cation
Coordinating Board
(HECB) today suggests.
Minnesota's current sys-tern
of financial aid is not
meeting its goal of pro-moting
equality of oppor-tunity
as effectively as pos-sible
because funds are
not targeted to students
gents are elected for a
five-year term. They must
take a break of one year
before they can be re-elected.
Seven members out of
the fifteen who are pres-ently
on the Board are
serving their second term .
Wessman notes that their
time and service is all
volunteer.
In December 568 "care"
packages under the direc-tion
of Curt Fauth were
prepared by the Parents'
Committee. These pack-ages
were financed by
parents for students dur-ing
finals week in Dec-ember,
1981.
The packages included
with the greatest need, the
paper says.
Under the current ap-proach,
poorer students
are expected to contribute
more to financing their edu-cation
than students from
more affluent families who
are attending the same in-stitution.
The problem has
evolved because the state
and federal student as-sistance
systems have de-veloped
without an ex-plicit
concept of how the
responsibility of paying
for post-secondary educa-tion
is to be shared by the
student, parents, govern-ment
and the institution,
the paper says.
The inequities are high-lighted
at a time when
federal and state funding
for student assistance is
being reduced after reach-a
brownie, two chocolate
chip cookies, an apple and
an orange, one bag of chips,
two packages of hot choc-olate
mix and one can of
juice, a bag of cashew nuts,
one box of cracker jacks,
two. Hershey candy bars,
one can of pop, one box of
raisins, one bag of soup,
and one bag of M&M's and
ing a peak during the
1979-80 school year. Mean-while,
the costs of educa-tion
are exceeding the rate
of inflation, and personal
family income is falling
behind the rate of infla-tion,
the paper says.
In response to the cur-rent
problems, the paper
suggests three options.
The state can increase
spending dramatically to
meet the demands of the
current system; it can ad-just
the current system to
accommodate appropria-tion
levels, thus increas-ing
inequities among stu-dents
from varying family
economic back-grounds;
or it can design an alterna-tive
system.
Since the private sector
is affected directly by the
financial aid system, a
clear state policy is needed
to make clear how stu-dents
attending these in-a
coupon for a single dip of
ice-cream in the coffee
shop.
Terri Johnson, project
coordinator, said, "we used
9 sheets of brownies, 1140
cookies, 5 boxes of cashew
nuts, 1150 packages of hot
chocolate mix and about
570 of everything else."
stitutions are to be treated
in the financial aid sys-tern,
Ingle said.
In addition, the role of
credit in Minnesota's stu-dent
financial aid system
must be addressed be-cause
loans have become
an important means of
meeting students' needs
and their importance is
likely to increase as the
federal government's role
in the loan area changes.
A separate staff paper is
planned to address the
feasibility of a state loan
program, independent of
existing federal ties.
Peace Corps makes the difference
Recital set for Monday
in the seminary chapel
TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH
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Worship? 9:15-10:15
10:30-11:30 -
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New Bus Schedule: BV 8:15
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Alternative design needed in financial aid
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Stu Luckman explains to Steve Mills, Beth Langstaff and Andre LaBerge the design of his latest
artwork which will be displayed in Bethel's art gallery (photo by Don Copeland).
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Students pursue excellence in innovative interim program
by Jan E. Johnson
Is there a place at Bethel
for an honors program?
Well , there is a group of
students and faculty that
say "Absolutely!" They are
members of the interim
class, Pursuit of Excel-lence.
The thing that sets the
Pursuit of Excellence class
apart from honors pro-grams
on other campuses
is the fact that this pro-gram
does not only cater
to developing the creativ-ity
of the gifted students,
but develops it through
projects that are benefi-cial
to the community of
Bethel.
In the mid-seventies,
Bethel was given a grant
by the Lilly foundation to
study different types of
honors programs at other
universities.
So, Bethel developed its
own program and called it
Center for Excellence in
Living and Learning, or
simply, CELL. The idea
behind CELL was to pro-duce
a center that pro-moted
the study of, and
the people for, creativity.
Pursuit of Excellence is
CELL in action.
Last December, a small
group of teachers recom-mended
students whom
they thought would be
good candidates for Pur-suit
of Excellence. These
students were then invited
to an orientation and asked
if they would like to be a
part of Pursuit of Excel-lence
for Interim. Those
who showed an interest
were then chosen by the
teachers involved in the
program.
Seven teachers were in-volved
in the venture. The
students were as diverse
as the subject matter:
freshmen to seniors with
majors in literature, chem-istry,
even music. Each
teacher had from three to
six students in the group,
and each group met Mon-day,
Wednesday, and Fri-day.
Jeff Miller's group met
during both the morning
and afternoon sessions,
and some evenings as well.
"We seemed to be con-stantly
working," said Mil-ler.
"There -was no prob-lem
with people skipping
at all. Everyone was really
motivated."
Amy Koelz, one of Mil-ler's
students, found the
class extremely challeng-ing
and rewarding. For
her, the most exciting
aspect was finding that
"people can be devoted to
a Christian ministry in the
arts, and have the glorify-ing
of God as the primary
goal."
For Cynthia Vander-vort,
one of Mary Fall's
music students, one of the
most exciting things was
the interaction between
students and teacher. "It
was surprising to me to
find that the teachers could
learn from the students
...that they wanted to learn
from us," said Vandervort.
Fall refers to this type of
interaction as the Greek or
Jewish way of teaching,
where the students sat in
small 'groups about the
teachers and discussed for
four years.
Paul Tavernier also en-joyed
the interaction of
students and teachers and
found it a "delightful way
to teach."
"The main thing about
the Pursuit of Excellence
class is group emphasis.
In this class the student
must depend on the others
in his group for projects,"
said Tavernier. The stu-dent
works toward an end
product that is essentially
only for him or herself,
whether it's a term paper
or a sculpture. In the Pur-suit
class, however, any
product that comes out is
really a group effort and
will more or less be used
to benefit the community.
A prime example of this
was Mary Fall's group which
worked on coming up with
a syllabus for an introduc-tion
to music course that
would be stimulating for
non-music Majors. Even
Tavernier's own group,
which dealt with using com-puters
to express ideas
through graphics, sound,
music and electronic
print, benefits the com-munity
by helping to break
the image of the computer
as strictly a kind of glori-fied
calculator.
On Tuesdays and Thurs-days,
the seven small
groups met in one large
group to hear guest speak-ers
and to discuss the na-ture
of creativity. There
were also what is referred
to as interdisciplinary
groups made up of a cross
section of teachers and stu-dents
from the seven small
groups. These four inter-disciplinary
teams dis-cussed
and tried to define
the nature of creativity,
how environment relates
to creativity, and how crea-tivity
and excellence relate
to Christianity.
RESIDENCE STAFF VIEWPOINT
What are AD's and RA's?
Larry Jacobs
RD Silvercrest
An AD is a maturing
Christian who is wil-ling
to reach out to oth-ers
with a heart of
compassion as well as
courage. He/she is not
expected to have it all
together but should be
an individual who is in
the process of growth
as a total person: phys-ically,
mentally and
spiritually. To put it
simply, an AD is a
friend.
Nona Ai
RA Arden Village West
An RA is a counselor
and a resource person
forming a vital link be-tween
administration
and students. Above all
an RA is a friend. An
RA is one who not only
has the opportunity to
share in the excitement
of academic, social and
spiritual growth among
his/her own guys/gals
but is also one who is
pushed to grow and ex-pand
in these areas
him/herself.
Rod Long
Director of Housing
RA's and AD's are ma-ture
third and fourth
year student leaders
who are also Housing
Staff Employees. As
trained paraprofession-als
RA's and AD's are
responsible, in conjunc-tion
with the Housing
Staff, for the growth of
whole persons in the
college residences by
facilitating the social,
spiritual, physical,
emotional and intellec-tual
development of
students.
Andrea Fair
RD Arden Village East
Being an RA is a paid
opportunity to serve
and it could also be
your first opportunity
to be a servant to oth-ers.
The RA position
will benefit you now
and provide good ex-perience
for all future
employment. An RA is
a resource person who -
handles anything from
maintenance problems
to academic, counsel-ing
and orientation -
questions or problems.
The opportunity to be
an RA is exciting, chal-lenging
and rewarding.
Steve Mills
AD Fountain Terrace
One of the most im-portant
elements of
being an AD is to be
consistent in who we
are, both as individu-als
and as Christians.
This consistency
breeds a sincere confi-dence
which can be-come
a very powerful
characteristic in relat-ing
to others.
To be "successful" at
this position one must
constantly evaluate mo-tives
for doing (and not
doing) and reach a tho-rough
understanding of
the concept of servant-hood.
Applications will be available in the student affairs office beginning Feb. 8. The deadline for application is Friday, Feb. 19.
events calendar
Friday, Feb. 5
Faculty recital—Gordon Howell & Dave Murchie, Seminary
Chapel, 8 p.m.
Senate—Movies, Gym, 8 p.m.
CC—Rollerskating, at "The Great Skate," 12:30-2:30 a.m.
Saturday, Feb. 6
WR—Wheaton Triangular, Away, 12 p.m.
HOC—St. Scholastica, Away, 3 p.m.
MBB—Macalester, Home, 7:30 p.m.
Community Involvement Week
Monday, Feb. 8
Last day to add a class
Chapel—Vernon Lake, Governor's Volunteer Office
Art Exhibition Opens, Art gallery, 7 p.m.
HOC—VW-Eau Claire, Home 7:45 p.m.
Senior recital—Brad Bak & Jeff Murray, Seminary Chapel, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 9
Chapel—President Lundquist
Student/Faculty Committee meetings, 3:40 p.m.
HOC—Hamline, Away, 7:30 p.m.
Student Senate meeting, TBA, 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 10
Chapel���Pastor Spickelmier
HOC—St. Mary's, Home, 7:45 p.m.
CC—Movie, "Kramer vs. Kramer," Gym, 8 p.m.
MBB—St. Olaf, Away, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 11
Chapel—Film, "Mountain of Light"
WBB—St. Olaf, Home, 8 p.m.
Snow Daze Weekend
Friday, Feb. 12
Chapel—Students Involved in the Community
HOC—St. Thomas, Away, 7:30 p.m.
CC—Andy Pratt with his band & Mark Heard, Gym, 8 p.m.
Rollerskating, at "Saints," 12-2 a.m.
Saturday, Feb. 13
WR—MIAC Meet, St. Olaf, 9:30 a.m.
WBB—Gustavus Adolphus, Home, 3 p.m.
MBB—Gustavus Adolphus, Home, 7:30 p.m.
Kevin Walton, social ministries coordinator and Eileen Wenninger, coordinator of volunteer CC—Sno-sculpture Contest, CC office, 1 p.m.
ministries have joined the Campus Ministries staff (photo by Don Copeland).
Stonehill radiates warmth
by Wendi Engel
The blizzard condi-tions
did not hold back
the crowd for the Ran-dy
Stonehill concert at
Bethel. Stonehill filled
the gym with an elect-ric
smile and music
that kept the crowd
warm.
With merely a gui-tar,
Stonehill played
two sets that included
old favorites from two
previous albums and
songs from his new al-b
u m, Between the
Glory and the Flame.
The lack of a warm-up
band allowed Stone-hill
more time on stage.
He interjected testi-mony,
personal exper-iences,
and insights be-tween
songs. The aud-ience
was continually
involved with Stone-hill.
He included songs
for audience participa-tion.
The crowd's ap-plause
brought Stone-hill
back for two en-cores.
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by Cliff Short
Eileen Wenninger and
Kevin Walton are two new
faces in the campus min-istries.
They are helping
Bethel students to become
involved in social minis-tries
in the surrounding
community.
Wenninger, who is new
to Bethel and the Twin
Cities area, has been se-lected
for the position of
Coordinator of Volunteer
Ministries; and Walton, a
senior, has been designat-ed
as the Social Ministries
Coordinator.
"My position has com-bined
the Social Minis-tries
and Student Outreach
coordinators positions of
last year," said Wenninger.
"It is a position that over-sees
both the Gospel teams
and social ministries, but I
find that most of my time
is devoted to working with
social ministries."
"One of our main goals
is to make it easier for
students to get involved in
the outside community,"
said Walton. "The primary
purpose of our job is to
serve as a channel through
which the student body
can become familiar with
and involved in various
social agencies in the Twin
Cities area," he said.
"Right now we have
about 100 people involved
in some type of volunteer
work on a regular basis,"
said Wenninger.
Some of the agencies
that social ministries work
with are: Special Friends,
Children's Home Society,
Youth Emergency Service,
Multiple Sclerosis Society,
St. Paul Society for the
Blind, Gillette Children's
Hospital, United Hospital,
U of M Hospitals, SEAD
(Southeast Asian Domes-tic
Ministries), plus vari-ous
nursing homes, rehab-ilation
centers and youth
programs.
"We can help direct
people who are interested
in some type of social in-volvement
to the proper
agency," said Walton, "and
also provide transporta-tion
if they need it."
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Campus Ministries seek student involvement
cagers, from page 12
for the Royals. A combina-tion
of the rejuvenated
Concordia team and Beth-el's
shooting inefficiency
(9 for 35 from the field and
8 of 18 freethrows) account-ed
for the turnabout. The
Cobbers, paced by the
shooting of Greg Strand
(21 points), turned a close
game into a rout, winning
73-56.
A role reversal occured
when the Royals took their
second long road trip of
wrestlers, from page 12
while Doug Johnson and
Rick Schwab decisioned
their opponents. Reynolds
and McEachern posted 13-
6 and 10-4 decisions re-spectively,
to account for
the Royals' scoring against
Augsburg.
Coach Klostreich said
the week to Winona to
engage St. Mary's. Earlier
this season, with the St.
Mary's Redmen playing at
Bethel, the Royals squan-dered
a 14 point lead and
eventually lost in over-time.
At St. Mary's the
Royals turned the tables,
coming back to beat the
Redmen who had led with
8 by 10 minutes left to
play. With the win the
Royals broke out of a five-game
losing streak and
upped their season record
to just one below .500 at
8-9.
that the team wrestled as
well as can be expected
considering the injuries
that have plagued the
Royals all year long. "We
wrestled well, especially
against Gustavus," he
said. "The squad kept their
intensity and rose to the
occasion. Rodger came
through when we needed
him," he added.
St. Mary's led 37-32 at
halftime and extended that
lead by as much as 8 points
midway through the se-cond
half. The Redmen's
Willie Green continued to
be a nemesis for the Roy-als
as he led St. Mary's
with 20 individual points.
In the season's first en-counter
he frustrated Beth-el
with outside shooting
and inside drives for 22
points. Against the rest of
the conference Green aver-ages
5 individual points a
game. In the second game,
Green's team, the Redmen,
were denied the final say.
When Coach Palke said
his team "played well
down the stretch" he had
good reason to believe it.
With 9 minutes left in the
game the Royals reeled off
five consecutive baskets
to the Redmen's one. Billy
Lawson's freethrow with
under 4 minutes remain-ing
gave Bethel the lead.
St. Mary's did not score
again while Mike Hanley
made two free throws and
Kevin Hugoson made the
layup that iced it for the
Royals. The final score
was 71-66.
Palke . said his team
"played well when it
counted ... this time, sev-eral
people made some cru-cial
plays." Palke's evalu-ation
was based on Bethel's
offensive efficiency. Beth-el
did not turn the ball
over once in the last ten
possessions of the game
and shot 59 per cent over-all.
Velgersdyk led all scor-ers
with 21 and continued
his "chairman of the
boards" status by grabbing
17 rebounds. Dewey Nord-strom
played his finest of-fensive
game to date, hit-ting
7 of 8 from the field
and two free throws for 18
points.
Bethany Baptist Church
Cleveland and Skillman Avenues, Roseville, Mn
Worship Service at 11:00 AM
Sunday School at 9:30 AM (Special College-age)
Evening Service at 6:00 PM
Church Telephone 631-0211
Pastor Bruce Peterson
'
Guard Billy Lawson goes up for a shot in a recent game against
St. John's (photo by Don Copeland).
his St. Thomas opponent (photo by
Playoffs close-out broomball tournament
Page 12 sports
WBB makes comeback
after losing two-in-row
Hockey squad loses
to top-ranked teams
by Mitch Anderson
After losses to St. Tho-mas
and Concordia-Moor-head
Jan. 23 and 27, the
Bethel women's basketball
team bounced back to des-troy
St. Mary's 78-69 on
Sat., Jan. 30.
Up only 3 points at the
half Saturday, the Royals
exploded in the second
half, scoring 47 points and
shooting 75 per cent from
the field. The win upped
the Royals' record to 3-2 in
MIAC play.
Freshman Sharon Hui-singa
led Bethel scorers
with 17 points. Kim Chris-tensen
and Sue Duehn pro-vided
solid backcourt play,
by Wendy Norberg
Both the men and wom-en
tracksters made their
season debut last weekend
at the University of Min-nesota
annual Northwest
Open. Team scores were
not kept but recognition
was given to the top six in
each event.
Highlighting the men's
by John Clark
The intramural broom-ball
season will come to a
close when the 16-team
"A" league and 8-team "B"
league tournament cham-pionship
games will be
played Saturday, Feb. 6, at
11 p.m. at Moundsview.
The season began the
first week of interim with
a record 48 teams compet-combining
for 27 points
and 14 assists. Duehn had
eight steals.
Sheila Kroon led Bethel
scoring in the 42-48 loss at
St. Thomas. Leading Royal
rebounder Karen Alme-roth
grabbed 21 rebounds.
Huisinga, the season's
leading scorer, averaging
12.6 ppg., led Bethel with
11 points in the 48-70 loss
at Concordia. The Cobbers
are rated twelfth national-ly.
The Royals (6-7 overall)
continue MIAC play at
home against Gustavus
Adolphus, Saturday, Feb.
11, at 8 p.m. and against
Hamline, Wednesday, Feb.
16, at 3 p.m.
events was Joe Moer-kerke's
first place tie in
the high jump. He cleared
6'10", which qualifies him
for the Indoor National
Meet and sets a new Beth-el
record.
Also placing for the Ro-yals
were Mike Fregeau in
the long jump and Steinar
Engebretsen in the triple
jump. Both men took 6th,
Fregeau jumped 20'1 1/2"
ing. The top four teams of
each division moved into
the play-offs after a six-game
regular season. To-night's
championship
game is the result of the
week-long single-elimina-tion
format to decide the
top team.
The season went fairly
smoothly in spite of an
increase of rough play on
and Engebretsen leaped 8
inches farther than his
previous best to a 43'1"
mark and a freshman
school record.
Tom Plocker highlighted
the running events by tak-ing
second place in the 600
yard dash. His time of
1:13.1 was also a school
record. Dave Jorgensen,
John Clark, and Mike Dirks
also ran well and made the
the ice. The intramural
office took action to curb
roughing.
"We had a lot of people
getting hurt and we had to
kick some people out," said
Phil Almeroth, tournament
director. "This (the rough
play) is not how we intend
the game to be played. It
can be a dangerous game
if it gets too rough."
finals in their events.
The Royal women had
only one runner place as
2-miler Wendy Norberg
finished fourth in her
event. But the team was
encouraged by individual
performances which were
considerably- better than
last season's first-meet ef-forts.
Both teams travel north
to Duluth this weekend
for a meet against Univer-sity
of Minnesota-Duluth
and Bemidji State.
From: Sports
Information Office
The Bethel wrestling
team upped its record to
9-4 by defeating Carleton
for the second time this
season and splitting its
matches in Saturday's Jan.
30, triangular with Augs-burg
and Gustavus. The
matches against St. John's
and St. Olaf that were post-poned
on Jan. 23 due to the
snowstorm will probably
not be rescheduled.
On Wednesday, Jan. 27
night the team traveled to
Northfield and defeated
Carleton by a score of 39-
14. Head coach Dave Klos-treich
said that the entire
squad wrestled well with
the Royals getting pins
from Jim Krier, Bob Bar-ringer,
Tim Kemp, and Ben
McEachern.
In their final home ap-pearance
of the year on
Saturday, the Royals drop-ped
a 43-7 decision to a
strong Augsburg squad
by John Clark
Although the Bethel
hockey team has shown
that they belong in the
MIAC, the Royals are still
a year away from chal-lenging
the conference
title. The team has lost
three straight games, in-cluding
a loss to the num-ber-
one-ranked team in the
country Jan. 29.
The Royals had a tough
game when they had to
face Bemidji State, the se-cond-
rated team in the
country, on Jan. 25 and
then follow that contest
with the defending na-tional
championship Augs-burg
squad four nights
later.
A second period let-down
allowed Bemidji
State to score eight goals
in its 10-5 defeat of the
Royals. A similar situation
prevailed against Augs-burg
when the Auggies
scored five goals in the
second session in their 8-6
triumph.
The third straight loss
by the Royals, including a
5-4 overtime defeat by
Gustavus on Jan. 19, left
Bethel with an 8-8 season-al
record and a 4-4 confer-ence
mark.
In the conference match-up
against Augsburg, the
Royals were hoping that
the defense would be
after defeating Gustavus
27- 16 in an exciting meet
that went down to the final
match. Bethel forfeited
two matches to Gustavus,
spotting them 12 team
points in the prdcess, but
still found themselves
leading 21-16 with one
match to go. Sophomore
by Ross Fleming
In last week's confer-ence
action the Bethel Ro-yals
traveled to Moorhead,
to battle the MIAC's num-ber-
one team, the unde-feated
Concordia Cob-bers.
The game marked
the return of Bethel's lead-ing
scorer and rebounder
Jason Velgersdyk to the
starting lineup. Velgers-dyk
let his presence be felt
early, scoring 14 first-half
points and dominating the
boards despite the efforts
strong enough to oppress
the powerful Auggie at-tack.
"If we play well defen-sively
it should be a really
good game," said Royal
Coach Craig Dahl before
the Augsburg contest.
"We've got to make sure
we don't get caught in
deep. When we play de-fense
we can play with
anyone."
In the first period a-gainst
the 17- 1 - 1 Auggies
the Royals were able to
-contain the Augsburg
shooters as the session
ended tied at 2-2. Unfor-tunately
the Royals were
unable to repeat their first
period heroics and by the
time the horn signaling the
end of the second period
had sounded, Augsburg
was leading 7-4.
Augsburg scored again
to make it 8-4 early in the
final period, but the Roy-als
never quit as they team
cut the margin to 8-6 and
had several opportunities
to close in even more on
the power play.
The Royals take on
St. Scholastica at Duluth
on Saturday, Feb. 6., and
return to Columbia Arena
Monday night, Feb. 8., at
7:45 against the Univer-sity
of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire.
Rodger Sullivan then rose
to the occasion and pinned
Gustavus heavyweight Al
Hughes to preserve the
Bethel victory. Junior cap-tain
Russ Reynolds and
McEachern both scored
pins against Gustavus
see page 11
of the Cobber's seven-foot
center, Garret Byrne.
At the end of the first
half the score was 32-31 in
the Royals' favor. The Ro-yals
had upset on their
mind but the 14 first-half
turnovers prevented the
team from expanding its
lead.
The complexion of the
game changed quickly in
the second half. The out-come
page
e s ai loss
Track teams begin indoor competition
Wrestlers win two of three
BBall team loses to Cobbers,
bounces back to beat Redmen

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Art, awnings augment
area's ailing atmosphere
Shadow foreshadows
more winter weather
GROUNDHOG
...............A North
American mar-mot
also known
as a woodchuck.
by Lori Bemis
On Feb. 2, 1982, the
groundhog did see his
shadow; thus there will be
six more weeks of winter.
Groundhog Day is based
on a custom that people
from Germany and Great
Britain brought to Amer-ica.
They believed that it
was a time for forecasting
the weather for the next
six weeks.
According to the legend,
the groundhog, or wood-chuck,
awakens from its
long winter sleep on Feb-ruary
2. It sticks its head
out of its home in the
ground and looks around.
If the sun is shining and
the ground hog can see its
shadow, it is frightened
and draws back into its
The Minnesota Higher
Education coordinating
Board has approved a $37
million refunding bond is-sue
that will enable the
Board to make guaranteed
loans to students through
the start of the 1982-83
school year.
The Board, which ad-ministers
the State Stu-dent
Loan Program, ap-proved
the sale of $37
million in revenue bonds
to a syndicate managed by
hole. This is supposed to
mean that there will be six
more weeks of winter
weather. But if the day is
cloudy and the ground hog
cannot see his shadow, it
stays out of its hole indi-cating
that spring weather
will soon come. (Science
has not confirmed this).
The day also corre-sponds
to the European
candlemas when spring
planting has begun. In
England and Scotland this
day was also used to fore-tell
the weather. It is pro-bably
the only time that
good weather serves as a
bad omen. The same
power of foretelling the
weather has been ascrib-ed
to the bear and the
badger.
Smith Barney, Harris Up-ham
and Company Inc.
Proceeds of the sale will
be used to refund in ad-vance
of maturity a 1978
issue of $38,250,000.
The resolution approv-ing
the sale will eliminate
terms of that 1978 bond
issue prohibiting the Board
from using certain pro-gram
funds, such as loan
repayments, for making
see page 5
by JoAnn Watkins
Community Involve-ment
Week will be held
Feb. 8-15 at Bethel. The
project is sponsored by
Campus Ministries, Peace
and Justice Committee,
and Public Action Commit-tee.
The purpose of the week-long
emphasis is threefold:
to raise the awareness of
the Bethel community to
the needs of the Metro
area, to provoke concern
and stimulate Christian re-sponse
to those needs, and
to inform students of in-volvement
opportunities.
According to Kevin
Walton, social ministries
coordinator, the project
will deal with the issue of
involvement through -cha-pel
speakers, direct con-tact
with the clientele, and
education.
Vernon Lake from the
Governor's Volunteer Of-fice
will speak in chapel
on Monday, Feb. 8. Friday
will be a chapel with stu-dent
volunteers speaking
and a slide presentation.
Tuesday, Feb. 9 will be
campus visit day for peo-by
Janice Woodard
Remodeling is being
done in the coffee shop in
order to create a more com-fortable
atmosphere and
to make the area look more
interesting.
The new divider in the
coffee shop is one phase of
the remodeling. The esti-mated
cost of the wall is
$1200-1300, according to
Paul Drake, director of
auxiliary services. The de-sign
was done by Eugene
Johnson, professor in art.
Another remodeling
plan is to hang fabric awn-ings
in the seven door-ways
leading into the cof-fee
shop. This would add
softness and color to the
coffee shop. According to
Linda Erickson, coffee
shop supervisor, the total
cost of the awnings would
be $900.
Other plans include
hanging pictures done by
Bethel art students, rear-ranging
the booths and
tables, and possibly re-ducing
the lighting, said
Erickson.
There will be rollerskat-ing
at Saints Rollerskat-ing
Rink from 6-8 p.m. on
Monday, Feb. 15 with re-fugees
located in the Metro
area. "The purpose is to
raise money for South East
Asian Domestic (SEAD)
ministry and to give Beth-el
students a chance to
interact with refugees that
we work with through
The mural by the dish
return is also part of the
project. It was painted by
Dale Johnson and is titled
"The Prevailing Family."
The Women's Auxiliary,
a volunteer organization
which raises money for
various Bethel projects,
has donated $3000 for the
remodeling of the coffee
shop, according to Joann
Moberg, president of the
Women's Auxiliary. The
money was raised through
church donations and
from the proceeds of the
birthday cakes ordered by
parents.
"The idea of remodeling
has been around for a
while, but the Lord has
just recently provided the
money," said Erickson.
The purpose of the di-vider
is not to create a
quiet study area. Erickson
emphasizes that the coffee
shop is for eating and fel-lowship,
not for studying
in. "We would like to dis-courage
studiers—they on-ly
take . up room," said
Erickson.
SEAD," said Walton. The
cost is $2.
The Peace and Justice
committee is sponsoring
teach-ins Monday through
Thursday in the AC Lounge.
(See accompanying sche-dule
for time, speaker and
topic.) The movie "Fare-well
to Freedom" will also
be shown in the AC
Lounge at several differ-ent
times. The film follows
the Hmong from the time
of the war to the problems
of resettlement in a foreign
country.
From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
on Friday there will be an
agency fair in the AC
Lounge. Fifteen to twenty
agencies that deal with is-sues
in the community and
volunteer placement will
be represented.
A Bible study guide is
being developed by the
Public Action Committee
for use by housing staff in
Prayer and Share times.
"We also want to encour-age
the professors to ad-dress
the issues raised
during the week,". said
Walton.
ple from Trevilla Nursing
Home. Saturday, Feb. 13,
will be the Winter Olym-pics
with about 60 child-ren
from Special Friends
at Mount Airy. Volunteers
are needed to help with
the activities. Residents at
Lake Owasso Residence
will be attending the bas-ketball
game also on Satur-day.
Good news for students:
big bucks for borrowers
Monday, Feb. 8 - Teach-In Schedule
11:10-12:10 Dr. William Smalley, "Hmong Refugees—Struggle
for Survival"
12:10-1:10 Brother Bruno, "The Meaning of Poverty"
1:20-2:30 Sister Connors, "Feeding the Poor in Minneapolis"
2:30-3:30 Paul Marincel, "Sheltering the Destitute—Emergency
Housing"
3:30-4:30 Film: "Farewell to Freedom"
Tuesday, Feb. 8
11:20-12:10 Eustolio Benavides, "Our Hispanic Neighbors"
12:10-1-1:10 Film: "Farewell to Freedom"
1:15-2:00 Rev. James Battle, "Civil Rights and Oppression
from a Black Perspective"
2:15-3:00 Phyllis Acker, "Volunteerism in a Time -of Need"
Wednesday, Feb. 9
11:10-12:00 Carla Skahen, "Reaching Out to the Needs of
Shut-ins"
12:10-1:10 Film: "Farewell to Freedom"
1:20-2:20 Film: "Farewell to Freedom
2:30-3:30 Ruby Starr, "Services for Handicapped Children"
Thursday, Feb. 10
11:10-12:00 Robin Wainright, "Who is my Neighbor: Biblical
Response"
12:10-1:10 Vicki Schield, "Advocacy for the Survival of the
Elderly"
1:15-2:00 Shirley Anderson, "Immigration—Aliens in Our
Land"
2:15-3:15 "Farewell to Freedom"
TBA TBA, "American Indian People in Our Midst"
Involvement week activities accent needs
rrBETHEL IS WALLS
by Jim Larson
Life: like artist's work,
ever-changing process
Page 2
editorial
People change as they go through life. It would be
difficult not to. Exposure to new ideas and broader
experiences tend to alter perceptions of the world, of
self and others.
In a sense each life is like a major work of art. The
artist and the adolescent each start working toward
some goal or image of the final product. Throughout the
pursuit of that goal the artist and the adolescent both
change. Those changes affect the image of the goal and
consequently the goal itself. Both the artist and the
young person make mistakes, change directions and
learn new methods. All these things affect the percep-tion
and the outcome of the final product.
So it is the process as much as the original idea that
determines the result. When a work is finished in the
artist's eyes that work may be sold or put on the shelf or
in some form to be considered complete. Then the artist
starts another project. All projects, though, contribute
in some way to future projects.
The process of developing a person is never complete.
However aspects of a person may be finished and put
aside but those experiences contribute in some way to
future experiences.
The real difference is in the fact that people are never
finished. Until the day of death a human life is in pro-cess—
the process of growing, changing, learning. Com-pletion
comes after death when God finishes the person
in His own image. That is a comforting thought for the
Christian. Without that hope, the process of life would
be an exercise in futility. lmk
letters
Volume 57, Number 17
5 February 1982
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
The Clarion is published weekly by the students
of Bethel College. Editorial opinions are the sole
responsibility of the Clarion staff. Letters are wel-come,
and must be signed and delivered in P.O.
2381 by the Sunday before publication.
Leann M. Kicker, editor
JoAnn Watkins, associate editor
Wendy Norberg, sports editor
Don Copeland, photography editor
Ginger Hope, copy editor
Pam Sundeen, business manager
Anita Baerg, editorial assistant
Janice Woodard, editorial assistant
Lori Bemis, editorial assistant
Jan E. Johnson, editorial assistant -
Beth Nystrom, graphics editor - .
Timothy Larson, graphics
Jim Larson, cartoonist
Kraig Klaudt, columnist
Wendi Engel, staff writer
Ross Fleming, sports writer
Rich Whybrew, sports writer
Mitch Anderson, sports writer
John Clark, sports writer
Obinger leaves living example: grandson celebrates legacy of love
To the Bethel community
Once in a person's life a
man touches it so deeply
with the love of Christ
that Christ's presence is
felt; a man who truly has a
great influence in one's
life.,The Apostle Paul en-courages
his readers to
emulate him as a living
example of Christ.
We all know of people
that we admire for one
reason or another, but.
there are precious few who
have walked in such close
communion with the Lord
that those who know them
strive to attain that same
walk by imitating these
men and women of God.
To this writer, the living
example of Christ was
Rev. Paul Obinger.
Paul Obinger was a real
student of God's Word. In
a world of four-year de-grees
and three-year semi-naries,
it is hard to con-ceive
of a self-taught Bible
scholar. But he did not
have the luxury of a class-room
to study in. While he
worked full-time deliver-•
ing laundry and with his
wife, Nebbs, raised five
children, he spent every
spare moment intently
poring over the scriptures.
There was no grade,'no
degree program to moti-vate
him, just a pure love
for his Lord.
So well did he know his
Bible that he had not only
verses and chapters mem-orized,
but whole books as
well. A pastor tells of a
trip to California where
Paul quoted the entire
book of Revelation on the
oops ...
In the January 22 issue
the Clarion inadvertantly
stated that Jeff Siemon
was a former Viking line-backer.
In fact, Siemon is
currently a linebacker for
the Vikings.
4FA
Rev. Paul Obinger
way. While most of us
have a hard time just read-ing
it, he had it memorized.
Prophecy was a special
love for Paul Obinger, be-cause
it spoke of the return
of the Lord he so longed to
see. He went around the
country preaching about
Biblical prophecy under
the Midwest Hebrew
Ministries and before that
under the American Mes-sianic
Fellowship.
Preaching was just a
natural outworking of his
biblical studies. In fact,
while he was a laundry
deliveryman in the 1930's,
he was involved in the
Gideons International,
held evangelistic street
Meetings, and had a radio
ministry. It was through
his radio ministry that he
was called to his first of
four pastorates.
Paul was also a prayer
warrior. Everything he did
was undergirded with
prayer. He had an inter-esting
way of praying. He
would lay prostrate on the
floor before God and pour
out his heart to the Lord
for extended periods of
time. Paul Obinger was
visiting two very close
friends and asked if he
could excuse himself to
the basement for prayer.
After a while the lady of
the house, having forgot-ten
that he was still in
prayer , opened the base-ment
door and heard from
the depths of Paul's fer-vent
voice, laden with
love, joy and awe, say,
"Oh, Lord, I love you with
all my heart." Others who
have prayed with him said
they were: almost embar-rassed,
as if eaves-drop-pik
on a conversation be-tweeri
two intimate
friends. .
On Tuesday, Jan. 26,
1982, Paul Obinger was
witnessing to Jewish stu-dents
at the University of
Minnesota, as he did every
Tuesday. That evening he
was attending Bethel's
Founders' Week. He was
in the midst of the Lord's
work. He had always
prayed that he might be
doing the Lord's work right
up until he met Christ face
to face, and he lived as if
the Lord's coming would
be any moment. In keep-ing
with the Founder's
Week theme, Paul Obin-ger
was found faithful
when God took him. He
wasn't disappointed, but
he didn't expect to meet
Christ by way of the un-dertaker;
he had expected
the "upper-taker." But
even in his death his faith
was proclaimed to those
around him. Instead of giv-ing
his money to a health
insurance company, he
gave it to the Lord. In fact
his stewardship was equal
in proportion to what he
used himself. Ndt every-one
would be able to live
in faith like this, but God
rewarded him by taking
him quickly.
When someone goes to
be with the Lord, many
things are remembered of
him. There are two things
that immediately .c ome to
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A visit to an Indian ashram in quest of spiritual enlightenment
by Kraig Klaudt
When one goes to Rome a visit to the Vatican is a
must. When in Tulsa, Oral Roberts, prayer tower is a
must. In India, no trip is complete without a visit to a
real guru at the local ashram.
For thousands of years, truth-seekers and contem-platives
from around the world have pilgrimaged to
Indian ashrams in quest of spiritual enlightenment.
Similar to a monastary, though less structured, an ash-ram
is a sanctuary in nature where people gather to
experience God through community and meditation.
At the heart of the ashram is the guru, the proverbial
sage who guides his disciples to the secrets his years
have found. Though rarely perched on a Tibetian moun-taintop,
he is anything one would expect a good godly
man to be: silent, bearded and robed in saffron cloth.
This is the way truth is found in India. It is not
surprising, then, that Christianity too might vend her-spiritual
goods in a similar manner. Thirty kilometers
outside of Trechi I found one of the few Christian ash-rams
in India. It is called Shanti Vanam, which means
"forest of peace."
The grand puba of Shanti Vanam is Father Bede
Griffiths. English, Oxford-educated, author of several
books and dear friend of C.S. Lewis (Lewis's autobio-graphy,
Surprised by Joy, is dedicated to him). Father
Griffith seems oddly at home in his small, one room but
on the banks of the Cauvery River. It has been his
mission since he came to India in 1955 to present the
Gospel in a natural form to the Eastern culture.
At 5:30 in the morning—early even by Indian stan-dards—
I took part in my first mass at Shanti Vanam.
With 35 others, I sat crosslegged on the floor of the
Hindu-styled hall of worship. To my surprise, the ser-vice
began with the uttering of OM, the word of the
everlasting Brahman. After burning incense, ringing
bells, reading from the upahishads, hailing Mary and
hearing a lesson from I John 4:7-8, I had a few of my own
questions to ask the resident guru:
Klaudt: From the word OM to the end of the service I
wasn't certain which God I was worshipping. You did
everything but break coconuts open on the alter!
Former Bethel students
found all over the world
Every state of the nation
claims as its residents
some Bethel College and
Seminary alumni, accord-ing
to the directory just
published by the alumni
office in November 1981.
Beginning with Linda
Aalderks and ending with
John Zylstra, nearly 18,000
names are listed spanning
71 years, with 661 John-sons
filling the most
columns.
The largest number of
Bethel Alumni live in Min-nesota-
5,238.
Of these, 1,148 are in the
City of St. Paul, 1,098 in
the the City of Minneapo-lis,
and 1,353 in outlying
suburbs, for a total Twin
Cities count of 3,599.
Other states with a large
number of alumni from
Bethel are Illinois-903,
California-895, Wiscon-sin-
522, Iowa-365, and
Father Griffiths: We have! Yes, we've done that too! It's
a beautiful symbolism; the idea of the coconut with its
hard, rough exterior which represents the outer world,
the outer self. You break your ego and within is the
sweet, white substance of milk which is the Divine Life
hidden within.
Klaudt: Why is all of this necessary?
Father Griffiths: Hindus will never accept Christianity
in its Western form, in its Western organization, with
its Western philosophy. Everything the church has, you
see, is Western. It is not Indian. The East must receive
Christ in his totality but not in his Western packaging.
Klaudt: It would be helpful if you could explain briefly
what it is that you are doing at Shanti Vanam.
Father Griffiths: Certainly. In Hinduism there has
always been this search for God, this ashram tradition.
Our aim is to unite the Christian monastic tradition of
giving up everything but God alone with the Indian
tradition of sanyassi, of surrender. The ashram is the
form of life that it takes as we follow the Hindu custom.
All of this, you see has been pioneering work. However,
we have had good support on the whole from the
authorities of the church. People come here from all
over the world to find an experience of God. They want
to find God as a living reality in their lives and they
need some quiet, some place for meditation and to do
yoga as well. Many people have wonderful experiences
here which change their lives.
Klaudt: If I were a devout Hindu and I were to visit
your ashram, what would you tell me?
Father Griffiths: We would normally let the Hindu fol-low
his own path. We would never try to convert him.
We always try to accept them as they are, and then
allow Christ to draw them through the scriptures and
through the life we lead. You see, any attempt at con-verting
the people of India has the reverse effect: it
creates a barrier.
Klaudt: Would the Hindu find Christ or would he be
presented with an equally valid road to his universal
god?
Father Griffiths: That is a big problem. I think the only
difference is that we relate everything to Christ as the
fullness, the finality. Whereas for them he is one with the
Avatar, just one of the manifestations of God. We feel
that Christ is the way, the truth and the life, and all that
truth belongs to him. If there is any truth in Hinduism,
Buddism and Islam, it should be brought to Christ.
Christ inherits the riches of the nations. All of Indian
spirituality and philosophy—all of that has been given
to Christ. Vendanta, yoga; all of these things we use and
try to see how they relate to Christ, the final word of
God.
The church in the past has been very narrow. We
have always said, both Catholics and Protestants, that
we have the truth and everything else is false. And that
is not true. People realize today that there is truth in
these things, and if you pretend there isn't, then you just
make yourself out to be foolish.
Klaudt: Many Christians would reject the idea of fol-lowing
a guru such as yourself. They would claim that
the authority of the scripture and the guidance of the
Holy Spirit is enough.
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Father Griffiths: We don't emphasize the guru aspect,
but I would say that if you want to follow the Holy
Spirit you do need a condition of life which makes you
open to the Spirit. If you are continually living in a city
with opposite forces at war, it makes it very difficult.
The value to me of an ashram is that there is a place to
get away from all these conflicting forces. One is able to
find himself a place where he can be open and surren-dered
and discover what the Holy Spirit is saying. The
guru is there to give guidance and help.
Klaudt: So you see yourself as a teacher?
Father Griffiths: Yes, yes, Christ is the guru. We call
him the sat-guru (great-guru). They come here to find
him, not to find me.
Klaudt: The life of the mystic or the monk is often one of
escaping the pains and contradictions of the world.
Hindu thought is also big on fleeing from the cycles of
suffering. Is this too a goal of your ashram?
Father Griffiths: No, we very much react against that
you know. One of-the differences between an ashram
and a monastary is that the monestary always has an
enclosure to keep people out. But the ashram is com-pletely
open; people come here from all parts.
They should be exposed to life. You have to create
your own center of prayer and silence, but it must be
open. Particularly we feel in India with the tremendous
suffering and poverty around we must be aware of it all
the time and must be related to it. So we help in the
villages, as that is an essential part of the ashram.
Klaudt: In your opinion, what does the future of Chris-tianity
look like in India?
Father Griffiths: The long future is very promising. The
immediate future is very confused. But I think the
whole of India is very confused.
Money is spoiling the church. They get money with
good intent to help the poor but they get corrupted by it.
Still, there are true people everywhere.
Hinduism still lacks something. Love is really what is
lacking. Hinduism has wonderful levels of conscious-ness
and so on, but practical love is missing. Still, it is
lacking in us too.
Colorado with 298.
In addition to living in
the 50 states plus the Dis-trict
of Columbia and Vir-gin
Islands, Bethel alumni
are spread abroad in 47
other countries. Outside
North America the largest
number of alumni is 32 in
Japan, followed by 29 in
the Philippines, 12 in Bra-zil,
and 10 each in Kenya
and Sweden.
Evelyn Christerison spoke at Bethel's Founders week women's
luncheon Jan. 28.
William Doyle is a math instructor and director of the Academic
Computer Center at Bethel (photo by Don Copeland).
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Christenson believes in Bethel
by Jan. E. Johnson
Evelyn Christenson, the
best-selling author of such
books as What Happens
When Women Pray and
Lord, Change Me, has
some very relevant things
to say about Bethel as a
Christian liberal arts col-lege,
and she shared her
views with the Clarion in
a recent Founders' Week
interview.
Christenson said that
the goal of a liberal arts
college should be to pro-vide
a well-rounded edu-cation
with a standard of
academic excellence.
"Bethel provides all of
that, but with a spiritual
emphasis," Christenson
said. "I feel that having a
well-rounded education is
extremely important."
She went on to say that
she would like to see more
by Laurie Challman
After teaching in the
Canary Islands, Taiwan,
Germany, and at Ohio
State University, why
would anyone choose to
come to Bethel College in
Arden Hills, Minn.? Wil-liam
Doyle can answer.
"I didn't want to come to
Minnesota—just as some-one
from Minnesota would
probably never think of
moving to Ohio. But the
Lord brought my family
and me here through a job
opportunity at Bethel,"
said Doyle.
Originally from Ohio,
Doyle is a new math in-structor
and the director
of the Academic Compu-ter
Center at Bethel this
fall.
Doyle deliberately
sought opportunities to
live in other countries,
mostly because of the ex-perience
he had as a resi-dent
advisor for a fresh-man
dorm at Moody Bible
Institute in 1965 - 1966.
There he worked with mis-sionary
kids (MKs) who
had difficulty adjusting to
life in the U.S. and there
he decided to prepare to
teaching MKs abroad.
He did his student teach-ing
in the Canary Islands
in 1968, which he de-scribed
as an "ideal place."
The climate, the people
and the free port helped
make it so, he said.
He taught, coached
basketball and played
trumpet in a band in Tai-chung,
Taiwan, at a school
for MKs and military kids.
..... , „
specialities at Bethel, "But
for that we'd need more
money. Still, I have'com-plete
confidence in the new
president of Bethel to use
the resources that we do
have."
When asked why she
thought that a Christian
liberal arts education was
more valuable than a sec-ular
liberal arts education,
Christenson replied, "I feel
that it is very important to
develop the spiritual side
as well as the mental side.
It's good for students to
see life from God's pers-pective,
to put God into
every subject that is
taught. This is the time
that the student is devel-oping
his values for life.
He (or she) should learn to
look at things from God's
point of view. It's also good
for a Christian student to
see that all the brilliant
people of the world are
It was a good environment
to work in, he said, but
after a year he decided it
would be good to be chal-lenged
in a more non-Chris-tian
school evironment.
not in secular schools."
Christenson also said
that the moral training
was very important, and
that with the moral train-ing
and the academic
standards set by Bethel,
she felt that the graduates
were able to find good jobs
because employers know
Bethel.
When Christenson is not
writing or speaking at
gatherings such as Found-er's
Week, she runs a
home.
"We have a very close-knit
family and we spend
all of our holidays, birth-days,
and vacations to-gether,
so that's where
most of my 'spare time'
goes. I don't-have time to
just do things like leisurely
shop. Usually I just dash
to the store when I need
something. enjoy life
very much, and have a
very happy life."
and a new learning ex-perience.
One of his short-term
goals is to master the run-ning
of the Academic Com-puter
Center. He also is
looking toward making a
"significant contribution
furthering research in the
learning and teaching pro-cess
of math education."
He said that all students
have some background, no
matter how small, in corn-puters.
"Our society is be-coming
too computerized
not to," he said.
working with so many
youth," he commented, "I
thought I had all the an-swers.
Now that I have
my own children I seem to
have less answers than
the parents who used to
ask me the questions."
He enjoys music, is de-voted
to the Ohio State
football team, and could
enjoy woodworking if he
had more time. The only
part of Minnesota that he
isn't sure he'll enjoy is the
cold winter, which keeps
him from biking to school.
by Anne Staus
The Board of Regents:
fifteen people who are re-sponsible
for making ma-jor
decisions regarding
Bethel. They are pastors,
business executives, and
educators who have been
elected by the Baptist
General Conference.
The Regents meet tour
times a year for several
days. The first evening
they hold committee ses-sions.
The next day and
evening they meet with
two college students, two
seminary students, two
college faculty, two semi-nary
faculty and other
selected persons with ex-pertise
related to the bus-iness
being discussed. The
third day is an executive
session where action is
taken on issues.
Coming:
kitchen
computer
by Larry Smith
A computer system may
go into use next fall in the
cafeteria and coffee shop,
according to Wayne Erick-son,
food service director.
Changes would affect stu-dents
living on campus,
cooks, food service man-agement
and the patrons
of Bethel's food service.
The most obvious
change would be in the
food card system. Students
living on campus would
be issued a special identi-fication
card to be used
when purchasing a meal.
Still using the a la carte
method, meals would be
purchased by punching
the student identification
number into the computer
and subtracting the
amount of the meal to give
the resulting balance. This
system would replace the
old cash registers, magic
markers and food cards.
Erickson outlined three
options which could be
available for people- not on
the food program con-nected
with living on-cam-pus.
Food could be pur-chased
with cash. Through
the banking window, a
person could establish cre-dit
on his/her account to go
see page 8
"Their function is
policy-making," said Ger-maine
Wessman, assistant
to the president. "I think
it's a very important con-tribution
they make be-cause
they have expertise
in outside areas that they
bring to Bethel." The Board
is not involved in admin-istrative
decisions, how-ever.
All recommendations
for faculty personnel and
executives must be ap-proved
by them. This in-cludes
the candidates re-commended
for president
and the vice-president of
the college, seminary, Pub-lic
Affairs, and Business
Affairs. They also approve
faculty promotions.
The Regents determine
the lifestyle statement and
see page 9
Doyle likes the atmos-phere
at Bethel. As a
Christian he feels he has a
freedom to express his
faith. "I don't have to fit
into a certain denomina-tional
mold—I have free-dom
of worship. Some
Christian colleges aren't
like that."
Doyle lives within bik-ing
distance from Bethel,
"except in the winter," he
said. He has a wife, Karen,
and two children: Heather,
5, and Stephanie. 7. "After
His next big move was
to Baumholder, Germany,
in 1975 where he taught
school and coached a bas-ketball
team for three
years. This military school
was one of two places in
Germany where the firing
of live amunition was al-lowed.
He said, "It was a
fascinating learning expe-rience
to watch tanks,
heavy artillery and front-line
troops in action." Even
more interesting was the
first-hand information he
got about the U.S. military
situation because of being
so close to the front line.
"Coming back to the U.S.
was a culture shock for me
just as it is for anyone
who goes abroad," said
Doyle. His lifestyle and
attitudes have changed, he'
said, in the sense that he is
much more world-mis-sions
oriented.
Doyle also worked as a
youth minister in Indiana-polis
for three summers
and the fall of 1970- 71 at a
large evangelical Presby-terian
church. "Actually,"
he said, "I've been a youth
minister all along; I just
hadn't been given the title
or the paycheck for it."
Now his ministry is at
Bethel. He sees his posi-tion
as instructor and di-rector
of the Academic Corn-puter
Center as a challenge
Doyle exchanges international teaching for position at Bethel
Major decisions made by
Bethel Board of Regents
Dr. John Stott spoke on the role of pastors Thursday, Jan. 28, in chapel during Founders' Week
(photo by Don Copeland).
Page 5
Stott speaks out on liberal arts education
by Janice Woodard
"The only fault of a Chris-tian
liberal arts college is
that it creams off most of
the best Christian facul-ty,"
said Dr. John R. W.
Stott, world—known Bible
expositor, conference speak-er,
and author. "We need
Christian professors and
students willing to stand
on their own in a secular
school too.
Stott, Rector Emeritus
of All Souls Church, in Lon-don,
was guest speaker at
Bethel- during Founders'
Week.
Stott believes that a Chris-tian
liberal arts education
is very important because
the lordship of Jesus needs
to be an integrating prin-ciple
of life. "If Jesus is
Lord at all, He must be
LOrd of everything," said
Stott. According to Stott,
one's whole life must be
At Urbana '81, Inter-Var-sity
Christian Fellowship's
13th Student Missions
Convention, 7,078 dele-gates
(mostly students)
signed the World Evange-lism
Dedi,si'on Card, distri-buted
to the crowd of over
14,000 in attendance, Dec.
27- 31, 1981.
According to John Kyle,
program director for Ur-bana
'81, 1,727 delegates
indicated they believed
God was leading them to
serve overseas. At the
same time, 4,723 made de-cisions
to increase their
awareness and involve-ment
in world missions.
Another 678 delegates
made commitments to sup-port
world missions with
money earned from busi-ness
or professional skills.
Although a majority of
those in attendance are
Christians, over 500 stood
when Rev. Billy Graham
gave an invitation to any-one
who wanted to accept
or be assured of their sal-vation
in Jesus Christ.
All of the delegates who
signed decision cards re-ceive
a packet of informa-tion
including an Interna-tional
Prayer Calendar; a
booklet entitled The Next
Ten Steps; "Checklist for
Missions" (article); and
MARC's, You Can So Get
There From Here.
committed to Christ; this
includes an integration of
faith and learning.
Stott labels the Chris-tian
mind as "a mind think-
' ing about everything, even
secular things, from a Chris-tian
perspective. It is a
total mind set."
By striving for a Christ-like
life and by maintain-ing
a Christian mind, Stott
believes that all the needs
of an individual, spiritual,
physical, and mental, will
be met at a Christian lib-eral
arts college.
Stott has begun an in-stitute
in England for lay-men,
called The London
Institute for Contem-porary
Christianity. 'The
institute's purpose is to
teach how to integrate
one's faith and profession
In order to develop a Chris-tian
mind.
"Dr. Stott is a
traveler for Christ, aandnd wel-
As a part of the follow-up
program to Urbana '81,
Inter-Varsity Christian
Fellowship is sponsoring
over 70 "Urbana Onward"
conferences throughout
Spring of '82. The confer-ences,
scheduled in 39
states'and three Canadian
provinces, encourage stu-dents
who made commit-ments
while at Urbana
'81.
"Urbana Onward" pro-vides
Urbana delegates
with a practical look at
world missions. Mission-aries
and various Inter-,-
Varsity staff members par-ticipating
in the weekend
conferences counsel stu-dents
on how to take steps
in applying what they
learned while at Urbana
'81.
Urbana '81 was held at
the campus of the Univer-sity
of Illinois—Urbana.
Students came from more
than 22 nations. Inter-
Varsity Christian Fellow-ship's
next student mis-sions
convention will be
held in 1984, returning the
conference to its former
three-year cycle.
Inter-Varsity is the old-est
of the inter-denomina-tional
campus ministries
with chapters on over 820
campuses in the U.S. The
national headquarters is
located in Madison, WI.
comed everywhere," said
President Lundquist. "God
has blessed him and made
him successful."
As an honorary chap-lain
to Queen Elizabeth II,
Stott speaks at one royal
chapel per year. He has
done this for the past 23
years.
In his leisure time, Stott
enjoys birdwatching and
photography.
Stott lives in a small
two-room apartment in Lon-don,
England, where he
was born in 1921. Being a
bachelor, Stott does not
feel tied down and feels
free to travel.
Looking back on his life
so far, Stott said, "I have
enjoyed it tremendously. I
only wish that I had ten
lives."
by JoAnn Watkins
Dr. Gordon Howell and
Dr. David Murchie will
present a faculty recital
Friday, Feb. 5, at 8 p.m.
Admission to the recital,
which will be held in the
Seminary chapel, is free.
Howell, professor of mu-sic,
will play 'piano;
Murchie, assistant profes-sor
in Biblical and theo-logical
studies, will per-
Obinger, from page 2
Paul Obinger. He had an
immense love for people,
and it especially showed
in his family. I remember
the pride he took in the
architectural skills of a
young grandson as he
erected buildings with
wooden blocks. It was no
more than a month ago
that he picked up a grand-daughter
and innundated
her with a deluge of kisses.
We all laughed as my little
sister squealed in sheer
delight, "Bumpa doo-doo"
Translation: Grampa's
kisses.
But one of my most
cherished memories is that
he took the time and pa-tiently
answered all my
questions about scripture.
As a child, I remember
while sitting on my grand-father's
knee, I imagined
what it must have been
like for the children that
sat at Jesus' feet. As a
young man I was-in awe of
his knowledge and grasp
of scripture.
Paul Obinger was by no
means perfect, but he was
without question a living
example.
Daniel Larson
form on violin. The music
played will be sonatas by
Schubert, Mozart and Schu-mann.
Howell said that the cham-ber
music that they will
play is different from typ-ical
solo music. "The com-poser
wrote the music for
a number of solo instru-ments
as equal soloists,"
he said. "The music is more
loans, from page 1
new student loans. As a
result, the Board expects
to be able to use for new
loans about $50 million
that otherwise would have
been restricted.
It is expected that the
$50 million, plus loan
funds on hand, will enable
the Board to disburse loans
through about next Octo-ber.
The refunding issue
will allow the Board to
"relend" loan proceeds, so
it may not have to sell
bonds as often as it has in
the past.
"The sale is important
because it ensures that loan
money will be available to
difficult and challenging
from the performers' stand-point
to perform." He add-ed
that he and Murchie
have been working on this
program since June.
Murchie has studied vio-lin
since age ten and
played in the Denver sym-phony
for six years. While
teaching in the BTS depart-ment
at Bethel he does
help students pay signifi-calif
increases in tuition
expected during the next
year," HECB President Jim
Krause said. "At the same
time, the amount of state
and federal grant funds to
be available is likely to be
reduced due to budget
problems."
The loan program is fi-nanced
by the sale of tax-exempt
revenue bonds and
requires no state appro-priations.
The bonds are
obligations of the Board
and are repaid by funds
received as a result of the
program's operation.
The 1981 Minnesota Leg-islature
increased the
Board' s bond ceiling from
freelance work and has
played with the college
orchestra.
Howell has taught at
Bethel for 23 years and he
is presently teaching mu-sic
theory and piano. He
received his Ph.D. in music
from Eastman School of
Music, Rochester, New
York.
$300 million to $550 mil-lion.
Including today's
sale, the Boards' outstand-ing
obligations amount to
$335,420,000.
The bonds have received
a rating of A by Moody's
Investor Services Inc. and
A+ by Standard and Poor's
Corp.
During the current
school year the Board anti-cipates
making approxi-mately
60,000 loans total-ing
$125 million. About
half of Minnesota's full-time
post-secondary stu-dents
rely on guaranteed
loans from either state or
private lenders to help pay
their secondary education
expenses.
Missions awareness
increases at Urbana
Duo recital features chamber music
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interim class Depression House.
Twice during January record snowfalls cancelled classes and created snow removal problems.
"Eighteen heads saying 'Oh'" was a display created by the interim Clay
Forms class as a self-portrait project.
Founders week found the halls, coffeeshop and gym full of pastors, lay people and alumni.
Saturday night activities at Silvercrest centered around removing snow and cars after snowfalls totaling 36 inches. Despite near-blizzard conditions Randy Stonehill drew a crowd of die-hards to his concert Jan. 22.
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The show will run through
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Dale Johnson, associate
professor of art at Bethel,
is exhibiting paintings in
the Katherine and Nash
Gallery at the University
of Minnesota, West Bank.
Johnson's paintings are
a naturalistic depiction of
life in muted colors. Al-though
there are land-scapes
the works deal
predominately with peo-ple.
Children are a favor-ite
subject of Johnson, and
ideas for the works of
children came from his
own children.
The exhibition is a cul-mination
of three years
work. Johnson said that in
the last two months he has
worked overtime in pre-paring
for this exhibit.
Selected exhibitions of
Johnson's have been in
New York, the Twin Cit-ies,
Boston, and other
places throughout the
United States. He has
works in the permanent
collections of Cargille,
Inc., Minnesota Mining
Corporation, Federal Re-serve
Bank, the Hennepin
County Medical Center
and also at the Exxon
Corporation in New York
City.
Johnson received his
Master of Fine Arts de-gree
from Michigan State
University, East Lansing,
in 1970. He earned his
B.A. from Western Michi-gan
University, Kalama-zoo.
The exhibit will run
through February 12.
Dale Johnson's "Standing Alone," is part of his exhibit at the
Katherine and Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota
(photo by Wendi Engel).
The Student Senate dis-cussed
the issue of locks
for the POs at the first
meeting of second semes-ter
on Tuesday, Feb. 2.
The Senate thinks that
financing will be a major
issue on deciding what
type of locks will be used.
Also discussed was the
dilemma of what to do
with the 700 extra year-books
that were ordered
previously because "it was
hoped that each student
would receive one free,"
said Cheryl Thomas, vice
president of the Student
Association. Yearbooks
will be available for those
who order them at the
concession stand Feb.
10- 12.
Joy Diacou's letter of
resignation from the Se-nate
was read and ap-proved
and she was ap-pointed
to the Public Ac-tion
Committee as a non-voting
member. The Sen-ate
also approved the ap-pointment
of Robert
Thompson to the Acade-mic
Policies Committee.
The Public Action Com-mittee
(PAC) asked the
Senate's help in supplying
the Thriftco Store at Voice
of Calvary Ministries in
Mississippi for the month
of February. Items needed
include new or used
irons, coffee pots, wash-ers
and refrigerators.
Other committee reports
were given by the January
working groups, which
will continue to meet until
all issues are dealt with.
Johnson art exhibitions
characterized by nature
Senate catches up on
PO lock controversy
computer, from page 4
on a food account. A
program could be deve-loped
whereby an
on-campus student could_
transfer credit from his/
her food account to an-other
person who wished
to buy credit from him/her.
This would be the equiva-lent
of buying and selling
food cards. For either of
the last two options, an
account would be estab-lished
with an identifica-tion
number.
The computer system
would be of benefit to the
cooks in preparing each
day's menu. By using pre-viously
collected data it
would be possible to pre-dict
how much food is
_needed for a certain day.
In much the same manner,
the computer would adjust
recipes to the needs of the
day.
The University of Wis-consin-
Stout, using a sys-tem
similar to Bethel's
proposed system, reduced
its inventory by 75 per
cent. Stout reduced costs
by lowering the inventory
level and thus reducing
waste.
By using the computer
to predict the students'
consumption for a partic-ular
day, the amount of
wasted food could be re-duced.
The goal is that
with the computer these
costs could be reduced,
both to the food service
and to the customers.
The cost of the system
could run close to $100,000,
according to Erickson. "We
would like to see it in
operation. The adminis-tration
is checking to see if
it can be worked out finan-cially,"
he said.
Paul Drake, director of
auxilary services, said,
"Our present system is
outdated. The only remain-ing
factor is the cost."
For the system to go
into use next fall it needs
to be ordered by Feburary
1. But the administration
will wait until January to
receive a proposl..from
Concept Systems,' Iricor-porated,
before making a
decision. They will also
examine a proposal from
IBM.
Preparation for the com-puter
would be done this
spring, when the present
records in food service
would be translated into
workable computer lan-guage
and figures.
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(photo by Don Copeland).
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Peace Corps urgently
needs individuals to serve
as volunteers with skills
in math and science edu-cation,
agriculture, fores-try
and fisheries, home
economics and nutrition,
or civil engineering.
Math and science
teachers are ranked high-est
on the most-needed list.
In some developing coun-tries,
a student's ability to
score high on entrance
exams determines whe-ther
he or she will attend
high school.
According to one Peace
Corps volunteer serving in
Togo,' the education sys-tern
makes it harder for a
Togolese student to get in-to
high school than into
college. it is important that
increasing numbers of peo-ple
in developing nations
gain post-secondary edu-cation
to fill the leader-ship
positions in their
countries that have opened
since independence.
Other skills badly need-ed
by the Peace Corps in-clude
industrial arts and
vocational education,
mechanics, medical lab
technology, and occupa-tional
and physical
therapy.
In Zaire, for instance,
children suffer from mal-nutrition
because there is
no skilled labor to main-by
Janice Woodard
A senior recital will be
performed by Jeffrey Mur-ray
and Bradley Bak on
Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. at the Sem-inary
chapel.
Murray will be playing
the C trumpet and the pic-colo
trumpet, and Bak will
be singing baritone.
Murray, principal trum-pet
in the concert band
and the student director,
is majoring in secondary
instrumental music. Bak,
a church music major, is sec-tion
leader in the college
choir and also the student
director.
The program will open
with a duet selection by
Bach. Selections played
will range from baroque
to contemporary. A recep-tion
will follow the recital.
The program is free of
charge and open to all.
Murray has studied for
two years under Ronald
Hasselmann, assistant
principal trumpet in the
Minnesota Orchestra. Bak
tain vehicles to transport
food. "There is an incredi-ble
need in Zaire for
mechanics who can repair
and maintain vehicles,"
says Baudouin de Mar-cken,
former Peace Corps
country director for Zaire.
It is critical that Zaire be-gin
to develop vocational
and training courses in
everything, from auto re-pair
to carpentry, accord-ing
to de Marcken.
The work of a single
skilled volunteer can trig-ger
benefits in many areas
of community life. A re-cent
agriculture volunteer
in Honduras pointed out
that improving the diet of
local children resulted in
better health, which in-creased
school attendance
and opened the way to a
better education.
As Peace Corps moves
into the decade of the
1980's, the agency will be-gin
to consider means of
making a greater impact
on the people whom they
strive to help. At the agen-cy's
20th anniversary con-ference
Prime Minister Ed-ward
Seaga of Jamaica cal-led•
for more agronomists,
agriculturists, and others
to help train his people. He
wants to see Peace Corps
work in those areas that
have more of a multiplier
effect.
has studied for four years
under Gerard Sunberg, as-sistant
professor in music
at Bethel.
Accompaniment will be
played by Jill Danielson,
piano; Mrs. Lee Harding,
piano and harpsichord; Dr.
David Murchie, violin;
Mrs. Jennifer Naglack,
violin; and Mrs. Alicia
Steinhaus, cello.
Regents from page 4
review and approve the
budget and building re-commendations.
A recent example of this
can be seen with plans for
a fieldhouse. The ground-work
was presented by
the director of- campus
planning and the funding
plans were presented by
Public Affairs. The Board
considered these recom-mendations
and decided
the timing and procedure
to take in erecting a new
fieldhouse.
Each year three new Re-
Peace Corps director Lo-ret
Miller Ruppe stated in
her speech before the 1981
summer commencement of
Northern Michigan Uni-versity
in Marquette that
Peace Corps can take well-motivated
Americans and
train them for service 'in
the Third World.
"We train them to be
able to encourage village
farmers to dig a pond, fill
in, stock a fast-growing
fish, and within three
months they can harvest a
crop of protein-rich food
and refill the pond and
start the cycle anew,"
maintained Ruppe.
To provide a place that
might have a 50 percent
infant mortality rate, 50 to
70 percent malnutrition
and an annual per capita
average income of $180
with a system of produc-tive
fish ponds gives the
whole area a source of
income and a source of
protein. This gives them a
future, Ruppe said.
Persons interested in in-formation
about service in
the Peace Corps may call
800-424-8580, Ext. 93, toll
free, or write Peace Corps,
Washington, D.C., 20525.
An alternative design to
Minnesota's current sys-tem
of helping students
pay for their education be-yond
high school may be
needed to cope with fiscal
constraints and to correct
inequities in the existing
approach, a staff paper pre-sented
to the Higher Edu-cation
Coordinating Board
(HECB) today suggests.
Minnesota's current sys-tern
of financial aid is not
meeting its goal of pro-moting
equality of oppor-tunity
as effectively as pos-sible
because funds are
not targeted to students
gents are elected for a
five-year term. They must
take a break of one year
before they can be re-elected.
Seven members out of
the fifteen who are pres-ently
on the Board are
serving their second term .
Wessman notes that their
time and service is all
volunteer.
In December 568 "care"
packages under the direc-tion
of Curt Fauth were
prepared by the Parents'
Committee. These pack-ages
were financed by
parents for students dur-ing
finals week in Dec-ember,
1981.
The packages included
with the greatest need, the
paper says.
Under the current ap-proach,
poorer students
are expected to contribute
more to financing their edu-cation
than students from
more affluent families who
are attending the same in-stitution.
The problem has
evolved because the state
and federal student as-sistance
systems have de-veloped
without an ex-plicit
concept of how the
responsibility of paying
for post-secondary educa-tion
is to be shared by the
student, parents, govern-ment
and the institution,
the paper says.
The inequities are high-lighted
at a time when
federal and state funding
for student assistance is
being reduced after reach-a
brownie, two chocolate
chip cookies, an apple and
an orange, one bag of chips,
two packages of hot choc-olate
mix and one can of
juice, a bag of cashew nuts,
one box of cracker jacks,
two. Hershey candy bars,
one can of pop, one box of
raisins, one bag of soup,
and one bag of M&M's and
ing a peak during the
1979-80 school year. Mean-while,
the costs of educa-tion
are exceeding the rate
of inflation, and personal
family income is falling
behind the rate of infla-tion,
the paper says.
In response to the cur-rent
problems, the paper
suggests three options.
The state can increase
spending dramatically to
meet the demands of the
current system; it can ad-just
the current system to
accommodate appropria-tion
levels, thus increas-ing
inequities among stu-dents
from varying family
economic back-grounds;
or it can design an alterna-tive
system.
Since the private sector
is affected directly by the
financial aid system, a
clear state policy is needed
to make clear how stu-dents
attending these in-a
coupon for a single dip of
ice-cream in the coffee
shop.
Terri Johnson, project
coordinator, said, "we used
9 sheets of brownies, 1140
cookies, 5 boxes of cashew
nuts, 1150 packages of hot
chocolate mix and about
570 of everything else."
stitutions are to be treated
in the financial aid sys-tern,
Ingle said.
In addition, the role of
credit in Minnesota's stu-dent
financial aid system
must be addressed be-cause
loans have become
an important means of
meeting students' needs
and their importance is
likely to increase as the
federal government's role
in the loan area changes.
A separate staff paper is
planned to address the
feasibility of a state loan
program, independent of
existing federal ties.
Peace Corps makes the difference
Recital set for Monday
in the seminary chapel
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Stu Luckman explains to Steve Mills, Beth Langstaff and Andre LaBerge the design of his latest
artwork which will be displayed in Bethel's art gallery (photo by Don Copeland).
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Students pursue excellence in innovative interim program
by Jan E. Johnson
Is there a place at Bethel
for an honors program?
Well , there is a group of
students and faculty that
say "Absolutely!" They are
members of the interim
class, Pursuit of Excel-lence.
The thing that sets the
Pursuit of Excellence class
apart from honors pro-grams
on other campuses
is the fact that this pro-gram
does not only cater
to developing the creativ-ity
of the gifted students,
but develops it through
projects that are benefi-cial
to the community of
Bethel.
In the mid-seventies,
Bethel was given a grant
by the Lilly foundation to
study different types of
honors programs at other
universities.
So, Bethel developed its
own program and called it
Center for Excellence in
Living and Learning, or
simply, CELL. The idea
behind CELL was to pro-duce
a center that pro-moted
the study of, and
the people for, creativity.
Pursuit of Excellence is
CELL in action.
Last December, a small
group of teachers recom-mended
students whom
they thought would be
good candidates for Pur-suit
of Excellence. These
students were then invited
to an orientation and asked
if they would like to be a
part of Pursuit of Excel-lence
for Interim. Those
who showed an interest
were then chosen by the
teachers involved in the
program.
Seven teachers were in-volved
in the venture. The
students were as diverse
as the subject matter:
freshmen to seniors with
majors in literature, chem-istry,
even music. Each
teacher had from three to
six students in the group,
and each group met Mon-day,
Wednesday, and Fri-day.
Jeff Miller's group met
during both the morning
and afternoon sessions,
and some evenings as well.
"We seemed to be con-stantly
working," said Mil-ler.
"There -was no prob-lem
with people skipping
at all. Everyone was really
motivated."
Amy Koelz, one of Mil-ler's
students, found the
class extremely challeng-ing
and rewarding. For
her, the most exciting
aspect was finding that
"people can be devoted to
a Christian ministry in the
arts, and have the glorify-ing
of God as the primary
goal."
For Cynthia Vander-vort,
one of Mary Fall's
music students, one of the
most exciting things was
the interaction between
students and teacher. "It
was surprising to me to
find that the teachers could
learn from the students
...that they wanted to learn
from us," said Vandervort.
Fall refers to this type of
interaction as the Greek or
Jewish way of teaching,
where the students sat in
small 'groups about the
teachers and discussed for
four years.
Paul Tavernier also en-joyed
the interaction of
students and teachers and
found it a "delightful way
to teach."
"The main thing about
the Pursuit of Excellence
class is group emphasis.
In this class the student
must depend on the others
in his group for projects,"
said Tavernier. The stu-dent
works toward an end
product that is essentially
only for him or herself,
whether it's a term paper
or a sculpture. In the Pur-suit
class, however, any
product that comes out is
really a group effort and
will more or less be used
to benefit the community.
A prime example of this
was Mary Fall's group which
worked on coming up with
a syllabus for an introduc-tion
to music course that
would be stimulating for
non-music Majors. Even
Tavernier's own group,
which dealt with using com-puters
to express ideas
through graphics, sound,
music and electronic
print, benefits the com-munity
by helping to break
the image of the computer
as strictly a kind of glori-fied
calculator.
On Tuesdays and Thurs-days,
the seven small
groups met in one large
group to hear guest speak-ers
and to discuss the na-ture
of creativity. There
were also what is referred
to as interdisciplinary
groups made up of a cross
section of teachers and stu-dents
from the seven small
groups. These four inter-disciplinary
teams dis-cussed
and tried to define
the nature of creativity,
how environment relates
to creativity, and how crea-tivity
and excellence relate
to Christianity.
RESIDENCE STAFF VIEWPOINT
What are AD's and RA's?
Larry Jacobs
RD Silvercrest
An AD is a maturing
Christian who is wil-ling
to reach out to oth-ers
with a heart of
compassion as well as
courage. He/she is not
expected to have it all
together but should be
an individual who is in
the process of growth
as a total person: phys-ically,
mentally and
spiritually. To put it
simply, an AD is a
friend.
Nona Ai
RA Arden Village West
An RA is a counselor
and a resource person
forming a vital link be-tween
administration
and students. Above all
an RA is a friend. An
RA is one who not only
has the opportunity to
share in the excitement
of academic, social and
spiritual growth among
his/her own guys/gals
but is also one who is
pushed to grow and ex-pand
in these areas
him/herself.
Rod Long
Director of Housing
RA's and AD's are ma-ture
third and fourth
year student leaders
who are also Housing
Staff Employees. As
trained paraprofession-als
RA's and AD's are
responsible, in conjunc-tion
with the Housing
Staff, for the growth of
whole persons in the
college residences by
facilitating the social,
spiritual, physical,
emotional and intellec-tual
development of
students.
Andrea Fair
RD Arden Village East
Being an RA is a paid
opportunity to serve
and it could also be
your first opportunity
to be a servant to oth-ers.
The RA position
will benefit you now
and provide good ex-perience
for all future
employment. An RA is
a resource person who -
handles anything from
maintenance problems
to academic, counsel-ing
and orientation -
questions or problems.
The opportunity to be
an RA is exciting, chal-lenging
and rewarding.
Steve Mills
AD Fountain Terrace
One of the most im-portant
elements of
being an AD is to be
consistent in who we
are, both as individu-als
and as Christians.
This consistency
breeds a sincere confi-dence
which can be-come
a very powerful
characteristic in relat-ing
to others.
To be "successful" at
this position one must
constantly evaluate mo-tives
for doing (and not
doing) and reach a tho-rough
understanding of
the concept of servant-hood.
Applications will be available in the student affairs office beginning Feb. 8. The deadline for application is Friday, Feb. 19.
events calendar
Friday, Feb. 5
Faculty recital—Gordon Howell & Dave Murchie, Seminary
Chapel, 8 p.m.
Senate—Movies, Gym, 8 p.m.
CC—Rollerskating, at "The Great Skate," 12:30-2:30 a.m.
Saturday, Feb. 6
WR—Wheaton Triangular, Away, 12 p.m.
HOC—St. Scholastica, Away, 3 p.m.
MBB—Macalester, Home, 7:30 p.m.
Community Involvement Week
Monday, Feb. 8
Last day to add a class
Chapel—Vernon Lake, Governor's Volunteer Office
Art Exhibition Opens, Art gallery, 7 p.m.
HOC—VW-Eau Claire, Home 7:45 p.m.
Senior recital—Brad Bak & Jeff Murray, Seminary Chapel, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 9
Chapel—President Lundquist
Student/Faculty Committee meetings, 3:40 p.m.
HOC—Hamline, Away, 7:30 p.m.
Student Senate meeting, TBA, 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 10
Chapel���Pastor Spickelmier
HOC—St. Mary's, Home, 7:45 p.m.
CC—Movie, "Kramer vs. Kramer," Gym, 8 p.m.
MBB—St. Olaf, Away, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 11
Chapel—Film, "Mountain of Light"
WBB—St. Olaf, Home, 8 p.m.
Snow Daze Weekend
Friday, Feb. 12
Chapel—Students Involved in the Community
HOC—St. Thomas, Away, 7:30 p.m.
CC—Andy Pratt with his band & Mark Heard, Gym, 8 p.m.
Rollerskating, at "Saints," 12-2 a.m.
Saturday, Feb. 13
WR—MIAC Meet, St. Olaf, 9:30 a.m.
WBB—Gustavus Adolphus, Home, 3 p.m.
MBB—Gustavus Adolphus, Home, 7:30 p.m.
Kevin Walton, social ministries coordinator and Eileen Wenninger, coordinator of volunteer CC—Sno-sculpture Contest, CC office, 1 p.m.
ministries have joined the Campus Ministries staff (photo by Don Copeland).
Stonehill radiates warmth
by Wendi Engel
The blizzard condi-tions
did not hold back
the crowd for the Ran-dy
Stonehill concert at
Bethel. Stonehill filled
the gym with an elect-ric
smile and music
that kept the crowd
warm.
With merely a gui-tar,
Stonehill played
two sets that included
old favorites from two
previous albums and
songs from his new al-b
u m, Between the
Glory and the Flame.
The lack of a warm-up
band allowed Stone-hill
more time on stage.
He interjected testi-mony,
personal exper-iences,
and insights be-tween
songs. The aud-ience
was continually
involved with Stone-hill.
He included songs
for audience participa-tion.
The crowd's ap-plause
brought Stone-hill
back for two en-cores.
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by Cliff Short
Eileen Wenninger and
Kevin Walton are two new
faces in the campus min-istries.
They are helping
Bethel students to become
involved in social minis-tries
in the surrounding
community.
Wenninger, who is new
to Bethel and the Twin
Cities area, has been se-lected
for the position of
Coordinator of Volunteer
Ministries; and Walton, a
senior, has been designat-ed
as the Social Ministries
Coordinator.
"My position has com-bined
the Social Minis-tries
and Student Outreach
coordinators positions of
last year," said Wenninger.
"It is a position that over-sees
both the Gospel teams
and social ministries, but I
find that most of my time
is devoted to working with
social ministries."
"One of our main goals
is to make it easier for
students to get involved in
the outside community,"
said Walton. "The primary
purpose of our job is to
serve as a channel through
which the student body
can become familiar with
and involved in various
social agencies in the Twin
Cities area," he said.
"Right now we have
about 100 people involved
in some type of volunteer
work on a regular basis,"
said Wenninger.
Some of the agencies
that social ministries work
with are: Special Friends,
Children's Home Society,
Youth Emergency Service,
Multiple Sclerosis Society,
St. Paul Society for the
Blind, Gillette Children's
Hospital, United Hospital,
U of M Hospitals, SEAD
(Southeast Asian Domes-tic
Ministries), plus vari-ous
nursing homes, rehab-ilation
centers and youth
programs.
"We can help direct
people who are interested
in some type of social in-volvement
to the proper
agency," said Walton, "and
also provide transporta-tion
if they need it."
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Campus Ministries seek student involvement
cagers, from page 12
for the Royals. A combina-tion
of the rejuvenated
Concordia team and Beth-el's
shooting inefficiency
(9 for 35 from the field and
8 of 18 freethrows) account-ed
for the turnabout. The
Cobbers, paced by the
shooting of Greg Strand
(21 points), turned a close
game into a rout, winning
73-56.
A role reversal occured
when the Royals took their
second long road trip of
wrestlers, from page 12
while Doug Johnson and
Rick Schwab decisioned
their opponents. Reynolds
and McEachern posted 13-
6 and 10-4 decisions re-spectively,
to account for
the Royals' scoring against
Augsburg.
Coach Klostreich said
the week to Winona to
engage St. Mary's. Earlier
this season, with the St.
Mary's Redmen playing at
Bethel, the Royals squan-dered
a 14 point lead and
eventually lost in over-time.
At St. Mary's the
Royals turned the tables,
coming back to beat the
Redmen who had led with
8 by 10 minutes left to
play. With the win the
Royals broke out of a five-game
losing streak and
upped their season record
to just one below .500 at
8-9.
that the team wrestled as
well as can be expected
considering the injuries
that have plagued the
Royals all year long. "We
wrestled well, especially
against Gustavus," he
said. "The squad kept their
intensity and rose to the
occasion. Rodger came
through when we needed
him," he added.
St. Mary's led 37-32 at
halftime and extended that
lead by as much as 8 points
midway through the se-cond
half. The Redmen's
Willie Green continued to
be a nemesis for the Roy-als
as he led St. Mary's
with 20 individual points.
In the season's first en-counter
he frustrated Beth-el
with outside shooting
and inside drives for 22
points. Against the rest of
the conference Green aver-ages
5 individual points a
game. In the second game,
Green's team, the Redmen,
were denied the final say.
When Coach Palke said
his team "played well
down the stretch" he had
good reason to believe it.
With 9 minutes left in the
game the Royals reeled off
five consecutive baskets
to the Redmen's one. Billy
Lawson's freethrow with
under 4 minutes remain-ing
gave Bethel the lead.
St. Mary's did not score
again while Mike Hanley
made two free throws and
Kevin Hugoson made the
layup that iced it for the
Royals. The final score
was 71-66.
Palke . said his team
"played well when it
counted ... this time, sev-eral
people made some cru-cial
plays." Palke's evalu-ation
was based on Bethel's
offensive efficiency. Beth-el
did not turn the ball
over once in the last ten
possessions of the game
and shot 59 per cent over-all.
Velgersdyk led all scor-ers
with 21 and continued
his "chairman of the
boards" status by grabbing
17 rebounds. Dewey Nord-strom
played his finest of-fensive
game to date, hit-ting
7 of 8 from the field
and two free throws for 18
points.
Bethany Baptist Church
Cleveland and Skillman Avenues, Roseville, Mn
Worship Service at 11:00 AM
Sunday School at 9:30 AM (Special College-age)
Evening Service at 6:00 PM
Church Telephone 631-0211
Pastor Bruce Peterson
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Guard Billy Lawson goes up for a shot in a recent game against
St. John's (photo by Don Copeland).
his St. Thomas opponent (photo by
Playoffs close-out broomball tournament
Page 12 sports
WBB makes comeback
after losing two-in-row
Hockey squad loses
to top-ranked teams
by Mitch Anderson
After losses to St. Tho-mas
and Concordia-Moor-head
Jan. 23 and 27, the
Bethel women's basketball
team bounced back to des-troy
St. Mary's 78-69 on
Sat., Jan. 30.
Up only 3 points at the
half Saturday, the Royals
exploded in the second
half, scoring 47 points and
shooting 75 per cent from
the field. The win upped
the Royals' record to 3-2 in
MIAC play.
Freshman Sharon Hui-singa
led Bethel scorers
with 17 points. Kim Chris-tensen
and Sue Duehn pro-vided
solid backcourt play,
by Wendy Norberg
Both the men and wom-en
tracksters made their
season debut last weekend
at the University of Min-nesota
annual Northwest
Open. Team scores were
not kept but recognition
was given to the top six in
each event.
Highlighting the men's
by John Clark
The intramural broom-ball
season will come to a
close when the 16-team
"A" league and 8-team "B"
league tournament cham-pionship
games will be
played Saturday, Feb. 6, at
11 p.m. at Moundsview.
The season began the
first week of interim with
a record 48 teams compet-combining
for 27 points
and 14 assists. Duehn had
eight steals.
Sheila Kroon led Bethel
scoring in the 42-48 loss at
St. Thomas. Leading Royal
rebounder Karen Alme-roth
grabbed 21 rebounds.
Huisinga, the season's
leading scorer, averaging
12.6 ppg., led Bethel with
11 points in the 48-70 loss
at Concordia. The Cobbers
are rated twelfth national-ly.
The Royals (6-7 overall)
continue MIAC play at
home against Gustavus
Adolphus, Saturday, Feb.
11, at 8 p.m. and against
Hamline, Wednesday, Feb.
16, at 3 p.m.
events was Joe Moer-kerke's
first place tie in
the high jump. He cleared
6'10", which qualifies him
for the Indoor National
Meet and sets a new Beth-el
record.
Also placing for the Ro-yals
were Mike Fregeau in
the long jump and Steinar
Engebretsen in the triple
jump. Both men took 6th,
Fregeau jumped 20'1 1/2"
ing. The top four teams of
each division moved into
the play-offs after a six-game
regular season. To-night's
championship
game is the result of the
week-long single-elimina-tion
format to decide the
top team.
The season went fairly
smoothly in spite of an
increase of rough play on
and Engebretsen leaped 8
inches farther than his
previous best to a 43'1"
mark and a freshman
school record.
Tom Plocker highlighted
the running events by tak-ing
second place in the 600
yard dash. His time of
1:13.1 was also a school
record. Dave Jorgensen,
John Clark, and Mike Dirks
also ran well and made the
the ice. The intramural
office took action to curb
roughing.
"We had a lot of people
getting hurt and we had to
kick some people out," said
Phil Almeroth, tournament
director. "This (the rough
play) is not how we intend
the game to be played. It
can be a dangerous game
if it gets too rough."
finals in their events.
The Royal women had
only one runner place as
2-miler Wendy Norberg
finished fourth in her
event. But the team was
encouraged by individual
performances which were
considerably- better than
last season's first-meet ef-forts.
Both teams travel north
to Duluth this weekend
for a meet against Univer-sity
of Minnesota-Duluth
and Bemidji State.
From: Sports
Information Office
The Bethel wrestling
team upped its record to
9-4 by defeating Carleton
for the second time this
season and splitting its
matches in Saturday's Jan.
30, triangular with Augs-burg
and Gustavus. The
matches against St. John's
and St. Olaf that were post-poned
on Jan. 23 due to the
snowstorm will probably
not be rescheduled.
On Wednesday, Jan. 27
night the team traveled to
Northfield and defeated
Carleton by a score of 39-
14. Head coach Dave Klos-treich
said that the entire
squad wrestled well with
the Royals getting pins
from Jim Krier, Bob Bar-ringer,
Tim Kemp, and Ben
McEachern.
In their final home ap-pearance
of the year on
Saturday, the Royals drop-ped
a 43-7 decision to a
strong Augsburg squad
by John Clark
Although the Bethel
hockey team has shown
that they belong in the
MIAC, the Royals are still
a year away from chal-lenging
the conference
title. The team has lost
three straight games, in-cluding
a loss to the num-ber-
one-ranked team in the
country Jan. 29.
The Royals had a tough
game when they had to
face Bemidji State, the se-cond-
rated team in the
country, on Jan. 25 and
then follow that contest
with the defending na-tional
championship Augs-burg
squad four nights
later.
A second period let-down
allowed Bemidji
State to score eight goals
in its 10-5 defeat of the
Royals. A similar situation
prevailed against Augs-burg
when the Auggies
scored five goals in the
second session in their 8-6
triumph.
The third straight loss
by the Royals, including a
5-4 overtime defeat by
Gustavus on Jan. 19, left
Bethel with an 8-8 season-al
record and a 4-4 confer-ence
mark.
In the conference match-up
against Augsburg, the
Royals were hoping that
the defense would be
after defeating Gustavus
27- 16 in an exciting meet
that went down to the final
match. Bethel forfeited
two matches to Gustavus,
spotting them 12 team
points in the prdcess, but
still found themselves
leading 21-16 with one
match to go. Sophomore
by Ross Fleming
In last week's confer-ence
action the Bethel Ro-yals
traveled to Moorhead,
to battle the MIAC's num-ber-
one team, the unde-feated
Concordia Cob-bers.
The game marked
the return of Bethel's lead-ing
scorer and rebounder
Jason Velgersdyk to the
starting lineup. Velgers-dyk
let his presence be felt
early, scoring 14 first-half
points and dominating the
boards despite the efforts
strong enough to oppress
the powerful Auggie at-tack.
"If we play well defen-sively
it should be a really
good game," said Royal
Coach Craig Dahl before
the Augsburg contest.
"We've got to make sure
we don't get caught in
deep. When we play de-fense
we can play with
anyone."
In the first period a-gainst
the 17- 1 - 1 Auggies
the Royals were able to
-contain the Augsburg
shooters as the session
ended tied at 2-2. Unfor-tunately
the Royals were
unable to repeat their first
period heroics and by the
time the horn signaling the
end of the second period
had sounded, Augsburg
was leading 7-4.
Augsburg scored again
to make it 8-4 early in the
final period, but the Roy-als
never quit as they team
cut the margin to 8-6 and
had several opportunities
to close in even more on
the power play.
The Royals take on
St. Scholastica at Duluth
on Saturday, Feb. 6., and
return to Columbia Arena
Monday night, Feb. 8., at
7:45 against the Univer-sity
of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire.
Rodger Sullivan then rose
to the occasion and pinned
Gustavus heavyweight Al
Hughes to preserve the
Bethel victory. Junior cap-tain
Russ Reynolds and
McEachern both scored
pins against Gustavus
see page 11
of the Cobber's seven-foot
center, Garret Byrne.
At the end of the first
half the score was 32-31 in
the Royals' favor. The Ro-yals
had upset on their
mind but the 14 first-half
turnovers prevented the
team from expanding its
lead.
The complexion of the
game changed quickly in
the second half. The out-come
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Track teams begin indoor competition
Wrestlers win two of three
BBall team loses to Cobbers,
bounces back to beat Redmen